Departing doctors leave IGMH unable to provide outpatient services to children
02 May 2010, 5:52 PM
Ahmed Nazeer
An acute lack of pediatric specialists in Indira Gandhi Memorial Hospital (IGMH) has forced the hospital to temporarily close outpatient services for children, who make up 40 percent of the hospital’s patients.
Zubair Mohamed, Managing Director of Male’ Health Services Corporation – formerly the Chief Executive Officer of IGMH – said that there were only four pediatricians left after many left claiming to have family and personal problems, while others departed on vacation.
Zubair said that low wages and poor allowances were leading doctors to resign and return to their own countries.
”Most of the good doctors we have are from India,” Zubair said.
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