AminaRani 🇵🇸

This needs urgent attention from those responsible for our healthcare system. “WE DEMAND PROPER HEALTHCARE ACROSS ALL ISLANDS OF THE MALDIVES. How many more lives must be lost before emergency healthcare is taken seriously across our islands? Yesterday morning, at approximately 06:30, our family faced a medical emergency in Villimalé. My mother suddenly developed severe breathing difficulties and was fighting for her life. We immediately called for an ambulance. It took more than 20 minutes for the ambulance to arrive. Twenty minutes in a place like Villimalé, where you can walk from one end of the island to the other in less than five minutes. How is that acceptable in an emergency? And when the ambulance finally arrived, it came with nothing more than a driver. No nurse, no paramedic, no medical professional to provide immediate emergency assistance to someone struggling to breathe. At that point, what is the purpose of calling an ambulance? We might as well have called a taxi. But what happened next at the hospital was even more heartbreaking. We arrived expecting immediate medical attention. The doctor eventually arrived with his child, left the child at the reception and began attempting to save my mother’s life. Our family was standing there desperately hoping and praying for a miracle. After attempting to revive my mother, the doctor apologised, told us to wait a minute and left again to drop his child at school. Let that sink in. A family was watching their mother fight for her life, and in those critical moments, we witnessed a situation that raises serious questions about emergency medical coverage, staffing and preparedness. I am not writing this out of anger alone. I am writing this because what happened to my family should never become another family’s experience. This is not simply about one ambulance, one doctor or one hospital. This is about a healthcare system that needs to be questioned and held accountable. * Why does an ambulance take more than 20 minutes to respond to an emergency in such a small island? * Why are ambulances operating without trained medical personnel to provide immediate emergency care? * Why is there no proper emergency medical coverage available around the clock? * Why should patients and their families have to face such uncertainty when every second matters? * Who is responsible for ensuring that emergency medical services are actually ready when people need them? We are not asking for luxury healthcare. We are asking for the most basic human right: timely, professional and accessible emergency medical care. People living in Villimalé and other inhabited islands deserve the same standard of emergency healthcare as those living in Malé. An emergency does not wait for office hours. A person struggling to breathe cannot wait for someone to become available. Every second can make the difference between life and death. Every second matters. Every life matters. Every island matters. We demand answers. We demand transparency. We demand accountability. Most importantly, we demand immediate improvements to ambulance services, emergency medical staffing and healthcare facilities across all islands of the Maldives. Please do not let this become just another heartbreaking story that people read today and forget tomorrow. No family should ever have to experience this. No one should have to wonder whether an ambulance will arrive with someone capable of saving a life. My mother deserved better. Every mother, father, son and daughter in this country deserves better.” @MoHmv @ANazim2019 @VillimaleHosp @igmhmv @HMH_mv @NayaxAhmed @mma_mv @NSPAmaldives @MMuizzu @presidencymv @MaleCitymv @adamazim @samarey3000bc