“No ambulance on Fridays”: Villigili man takes wife to hospital in garbage cart
08 Aug 2011, 3:58 PM
Ahmed Nazeer
An elderly man named Ali Waheed living in Villingili, a residential island that is the fifth district of Male’, has claimed he had to carry his wife to hospital in a garbage cart after the island’s health centre said there was no ambulance available “because it was Friday”.
“I called the police and asked for help, but they said all their vehicles had been damaged and taken Male to repair,’’ Waheed said. “The health centre said that because it was Friday there was no doctor or health worker available, and when asked if one could be made available as it was an urgent case, they said it was not the health centre’s policy.’’
Waheed’s house is located near the garbage pile on the island, and he found a wheel-cart nearby which was used to carry trash.
“I carried my wife on the wheel-cart to the Villingili-Male’ ferry and wheeled her to Indira Gandhi Memorial Hospital (IGMH).”
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