# @who on Instagram

- **Type:** Image
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/CO7yj6zjFJv
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/76822988-who-instagram
- **Thumbnail:** https://img.gondola.cc/tr:w-,h-,fo-auto/postThumbnails/62a6690cb6.jpg
- **Posted:** 2021-05-16T12:41:59.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** World Health Organization (WHO) (@WHO) — https://gondola.cc/WHO

## Caption

Virginia Legaile is one of 12 noncommunicable disease (#NCD) coordinators in #SolomonIslands 🇸🇧. She leads a specialized NCD clinic where patients receive holistic assessments and care plans, but her work in the community extends outside the office. Virginia also started a garden on hospital grounds and shares seeds 🌱, vegetables 🥕, gardening skills 🌼 and nutrition knowledge with her patients. ⁣
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Virginia's clinic is part of the Solomon Islands Package of Essential Noncommunicable Disease (SolPEN) programme, a systems-based initiative developed by WHO and Solomon Islands’ Ministry of Health. SolPEN enables government health facilities to identify people who have NCDs and to treat them effectively.⁣
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📸 © WHO / Neil Nuia⁣
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*Note: there is no community transmission of COVID-19 in Solomon Islands, therefore use of masks is not currently required in the country.

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## Tags

solomonislands, ncd

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