Prisons authority threatens action against slander
The Maldives Correctional Service denied attempting to coerce Ahmed Adeeb’s family to give consent for administering an injection to the jailed former vice president.
17 Oct 2017, 9:00 AM
The prisons authority has denied attempting to coerce Ahmed Adeeb’s family into giving consent for administering an injection to the jailed former vice president, condemning “false allegations” concerning the medical treatment of inmates.
The Maldives Correctional Services said in a statement Monday that inmates interact with doctors privately after consultations are arranged upon request.
“This service will not instruct doctors to prescribe a certain medicine or do anything particular to the person,” the MCS said. “And this service will not decide to give a certain injection or do a scan. All such matters will be decided by the inmate or the consulting doctor.”
Any suggestion to the contrary is “baseless and completely untrue,” the MCS said, adding that “legal action will be taken against those who spread falsehoods about this service.”
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