Prisons authority denies unlicensed doctors treating inmates
Abdulla Rasheed, who was serving a five-year sentence on assault charges, died last October while being treated at the Indira Gandhi Memorial Hospital.
07 Mar 2018, 9:00 AM
The prisons authority has denied that unlicensed doctors are treating inmates, as a rights group filed a complaint about the medical care of a detainee who died last October.
Abdulla Rasheed, who was serving a five-year sentence on assault charges, died while being treated at the Indira Gandhi Memorial Hospital.
The Maldivian Democracy Network (MDN), which campaigns for detainee rights, lodged a complaint with the Maldives Medical and Dental Council to investigate whether an unregistered doctor was treating Rasheed in prison.
“Our organization received information that, among the people providing medical treatment for Abdulla Rasheed, there was a practitioner who had not received a medical license in the Maldives. Therefore we requested to investigate whether this is true,” said a letter from the MDN, a copy of which has been seen by the Maldives Independent.
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