e hand delivered invitation arrived just after 9 40 am on the rather
dull morning of 14 May 1987. It was to lunch on the following day
with Dr Timoci Bavadra, Prime Minister of Fiji and leader of the
Labour-National Federation Party coalition, which had been
democratically elected to govern Fiji for five years on 11 April 1987.
The opportunity for which so many had worked and waited for so
long had arrived. At last there was a chance to sit with the top
political figures in the land and begin to discuss in earnest the
realities of the future for the Fiji School of Medicine, of medical
education in the vast reaches of the south west Pacific, and other
urgent matters relating to the health of Fiji