Pacific Health Access: Kiribati children are returning home after free heart treatment in Fiji at the Sri Sathya Sai Sanjeevani Children’s Heart Hospital, with families describing new hope after surgeries for defects and rheumatic heart disease. Cardiac Care Expansion: The same Fiji hospital says it will expand later this month to serve adults and adolescents, adding services like angiograms and scans to meet a growing cardiovascular burden. Regional Support & Safety: New Zealand and Kiribati teams carried out a major World War II unexploded ordnance disposal operation in Betio, moving about 300 items and evacuating thousands when some degraded shells had to be detonated inside a bunker. Pacific Diplomacy & Health Links: The U.S. announced new Pacific initiatives after Deputy Secretary Christopher Landau’s tour that included Kiribati, with disaster-recovery funding and plans that also touch health-related capacity in the region.