The family of former Vice President Ahmed Adeeb has said that the correctional service is to blame for his worsened health condition.

Adeeb was taken for emergency medical treatment on Friday night and is now under observation after being treated at Indhira Gandhi Memorial Hospital (IGMH)’s ICU.

His wife Mariyam Nashwa said that kidney stones have developed between his kidney and bladder because the correctional service refused to abide by doctor’s instructions.

She said that if medication does not dissolve the kidney stones within three days, it would have to be removed via operation. Highlighting the extreme discomfort of having kidney stones, Nashwa said that Adeeb has been injected with five painkillers and given four fluid injections for a contrast CT scan.

She also said that it had taken two hours to convince senior correctional service officers that Adeeb was having stomachaches and that he was taken to IGMH only after the doctor at the prison signed a document stating that he cannot be treated at the prison clinic.

Adeeb, the youngest vice president in Maldives' democratic history, is serving a 33-year prison sentence for multiple counts of corruption and terrorism for his involvement in the attempted assassination of President Abdulla Yameen and the MMPRC embezzlement scandal.

Ever since his imprisonment in 2015, Adeeb’s family and legal team have voiced concern over his growing health issues, including internal cysts, kidney stones, and glaucoma.

The state has rejected requests to grant him medical leave abroad after deeming him a flight risk.