Amata Welcomes Maternal/Child Health Services Grant

Washington, D.C. - Congresswoman Uifa'atali Amata is pleased to welcome notice of a health services grant providing maternal and child health care services.

File photo with Dr. Anaise Uso in Congresswoman Amata's office with a health delegation to DC that included Dr. Aifili John Tufa, Annie Noa, Emma Reid-Alo, Langahelotu Vivao, Francis Vivao

"Thank you in particular to Dr. Anaise Uso for her work on grants like this one, and the medical care and services she and other professionals at LBJ provide for our mothers, babies, and young children," said Congresswoman Amata. "We appreciate all our hardworking doctors and nurses, and every federal dollar makes a difference, especially in our health care efforts."

This is a discretionary, supplemental grant of $130,884 for the American Samoa Department of Health (ASDOH) from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) through the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA).

ASDOH is led by Director Dr. Saipale Fuimaono under the administration of Governor Pulaali'i Nikolao Pula and Lt. Gov. Pulumataala Ae Ae, Jr., and in Washington, D.C., HHS is led by Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., and HRSA by Administrator Thomas Engels.

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