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An excerpt from a 2008 situation report found on http://www.hermannoberli.ch/news9_2.htm:

18 Aug 2008 Ongoing doctor shortage [Solomon Times, Solomon Star]

According to a WHO policy, there should be one doctor for about 400 to 500 people, however, in Solomon Islands one doctor serves around 9,000 people.

The National Referral Hospital in Honiara should have about 60 doctors, 30 of them specialists, but currently has only 32, eight of them specialists.

34 are needed in the provinces, but only 23 are working there. Western Province and Malaita Province should both have about 10 doctors each including specialists. Right now, there are five doctors in Malaita and three doctors in Gizo and all of them junior doctors.

Out of the 110 doctors the country has produced so far, 35 mostly specialist doctors are working overseas, the majority of them working in Australia, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea and Fiji.

10 Cuban doctors are currently working in the country and the government will try to get eight more.

At least the number of nurses is more pleasing: Solomon Islands has currently about 1,000 registered nurses.