Government coalition Maldivian Democratic Party’s (MDP) parliamentary campaign agenda promises to build at least one tertiary hospital in every atoll, says Mohamed Rasheed Hussain, MP for Alifushi constituency. 

MP Hussain, who has attained MDP’s ticket to contest for his seat in the upcoming parliamentary election, said this at at a panel discussion on Monday evening, adding that the party’s legislation on the public health sector. 

Hussain said MDP’s ‘Agenda 19’, the name for their camapign for the upcoming election, does support allocating resources towards developing hospitals that can provide tertiary services and conduct surgeries, eliminating the need for domestic migration for medicine and the consequences of logistics associated with such travel. 

The hospitals should be fully staffed and supplied, and these atoll hospitals will act as focal points for their regions, with staff from the hospital visiting other smaller islands and supporting their respective health centres, MP Hussain said. Currently there are only three state-run hospitals in the atolls.

The legislation on public health is one of over a dozen bills to be submitted after the election on April 6th.