A six-year-old boy with spastic quadriplegic cerebral palsy, Ibrahim Azan Suhail, has died after a feeding tube he required was not supplied through the State Trading Organisation for eight months. His mother said STO did not follow up after the National Social Protection Agency asked it to request a financial assistance application from the patient.
One outlet so far Only Maldives Republic has reported this among the sources we monitor. A gap in what we monitor, not proof that others did not report it.
In a Facebook post on 16 March, Yashfa said she had not received any response from STO despite repeated calls and visits.
Word for word from the report in Maldives Republic. Open the report
My child is fed with a PEG tube. Last year I ordered two PEG tubes from STO. I still don’t get them. It’s been eight months now. I have called STO and went to STO pharmacy several times
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