Former Vice President Ahmed Adeeb’s family has repeatedly asked the Information Commission to provide them with a copy of the doctor’s recommendation for cancer tests, his wife Mariyam Nashwa has said.

Nashwa said in a post on her official Twitter account that the family has, on numerous occasions, gone through the required channels to attain said letter, to no avail.

She then reiterated how providing such information, especially about a credibly ill inmate to their family, is something the commission is legally required to do.

Adeeb, who is serving a thirty-three-year jail term, was reportedly asked to get screened for cancer two years ago, as revealed by an official from the Human Rights Commission.

The official, who spoke to RaajjeMV on the condition of anonymity, said that the commission had questioned Dr. Mohamed Ashraf, a urologist at the state-operated Indira Gandhi Memorial Hospital, whom Adeeb had seen on December of 2015.

Dr. Ashraf had asked Adeeb to seek consultation with an oncologist and undergo a biopsy. The family has also said that the Maldives Correctional Services had attempted to have Adeeb undergo a questionable procedure.

Adeeb’s brother, Mohamed Nadheem, had succumbed to cancerous cyst in 2008. The official from HRCM said that the doctor had advised that Adeeb receive treatment abroad.

Adeeb’s family had released a statement earlier in June claiming that he has developed an internal cyst, kidney stones, and vision impairment from glaucoma since his incarceration in 2015.

They have accused the state of negligence in failing to provide Adeeb with adequate medical care during his isolated incarceration at the prison in Dhoonidhoo Island while the police investigated allegations against him.