Health Minister Ahmed Naseem says the Ministry's probe into the tragic death of a 10-year-old girl who had succumbed to COVID-19 earlier this month.
The Health Minister probe was triggered reports of a huge delay in deploying an ambulance to the girl's house after her parents reported on several occasions of her deteriorating condition.
Speaker to the media today, Minister Naseem noted that the Ministry had now issued a report on the case review within days of the incident. He said that more investigations are currently ongoing in this case.
Minister Naseem further said that several issues had been highlighted in the report and work is now underway to rectify these issues.
In the report, Health Ministry had noted why there was a delay in deploying an ambulance to the girl's house and had said that on several occasions individuals who took the emergency call from the girl's parents had failed to active an ambulance.
It had also noted that once the ambulance had been activated it had reached the girl's house within 10 minutes. .
The report had also highlighted that the government would work to establish Emergency Medical Services as a separate entity that would offer ambulance services.
