Hospital charges to remain stable despite Apollo deal, pledges health ministry
27 Jan 2010, 6:51 PM
Mazin Rafeeq
The ministry of health has pledged that hospital charges will remain stable at Indira Gandhi Memorial Hospital (IGMH), even though it is to managed by private company Apollo Hospital Group.
Health Minister Dr Aminath Jameel said the hospital remained a state asset “and we have only handed the management of the hospital over to Apollo.”
The minister also said that IGMH would be turned into a teaching hospital, which would provide training for nurses and paramedics in line with the government’s aim of ensuring at least 80 per cent of hospital staff are Maldivian within 15 years. Currently 60 per cent of the hospital’s nursing staff are foreign.
The health ministry acknowledged that IGMH was not at the standard that a tertiary hospital should be.
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