# National Referral Hospital, Honiara

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## TL;DR

Solomon Islands' national hospital in Honiara, whose medical oncology unit has given chemotherapy since 2018.

## Summary

A 2023 paper in JCO Global Oncology describes the establishment of an oncology unit at the National Referral Hospital: a scoping visit in 2016 at the Medical Superintendent's request, then, at the request of the Ministry of Health, a multidisciplinary mission arranged by Australia's Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade under the Royal Australasian Colleges' Pacific Islands Program that helped commission the NRH Medical Oncology Unit in September 2018. Staff developed local Solomon Islands Oncology Guidelines, and the authors report a sustainable unit delivering chemotherapy and cancer management. A 2021 paper on oncology collaboration in Pacific island communities lists the NRH Oncology Unit among its authors. IAEA DIRAC lists no radiotherapy centre in Solomon Islands. Coordinates are Nominatim's.

## Fields

- Kind: Institution
- Last checked: 2026-11-11
- Also known as: NRH Solomon Islands; NRH Oncology Unit
- City: Honiara, SB
- Type: hospital

## Sources

- Yip et al., establishment of an oncology unit in the Solomon Islands (JCO Glob Oncol 2023): https://doi.org/10.1200/go.22.00325
- Ward et al., a collaborative approach to oncology in Asia-Pacific island communities (J Med Imaging Radiat Oncol 2021): https://doi.org/10.1111/1754-9485.13160

## Connected records

- institutions: [Ministry of Health and Medical Services, Solomon Islands](https://onco.cc/institutions/solomon-islands-ministry-of-health/)

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