Health in the Maldives

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The Human Rights Measurement Initiative [1] finds that the Maldives is fulfilling 72.0% of what it should be fulfilling for the right to health based on its level of income. [2] When looking at the right to health with respect to children, the Maldives achieves 98.0% of what is expected based on its current income. [3] In regards to the right to health amongst the adult population, the country achieves 99.7% of what is expected based on the nation's level of income. [4] The Maldives falls into the "very bad" category when evaluating the right to reproductive health because the nation is fulfilling only 18.2% of what the nation is expected to achieve based on the resources (income) it has available. [5]

Life expectancy in the Maldives was 77 years in 2011. [6] Infant mortality fell from 34 per 1,000 in 1990 to 15 in 2004. There is increasing disparity between health in the capital and on the other islands. There is also a problem of malnutrition. Imported food is expensive. [7]

On 24 May 2021, Maldives had the world's fastest-growing COVID-19 outbreak, with the highest number of infections per million people over the prior 7 and 14 days, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. [8] Doctors warned that increasing demand for COVID-19 care could hinder their ability to handle other health emergencies in the Maldives. [9]

Preventuve and public health falls within the remit of the Centre for Community Health and Disease Control.

The Society for Health Education provides sexual and reproductive health information and services to young people. It is supported by the United Nations Population Fund. [10]

Healthcare

The proportion of health expenditure in the national budget increased from 8.7% in 1998 to 10.9% in 2000. Total expenditure on health in 2001 was $98. The Maldives has a universal health insurance scheme, Aasandha.

There are two hospitals in Malé, the Indira Gandhi Memorial Hospital, which is public and the ADK Hospital which is commercial. On all the inhabited atolls there are primary care facilities, and secondary care with beds on the larger islands. [11] The atoll-based hospitals have trouble getting supplies of medicine:

In 2000 there was a total of 470 hospital beds, a ratio of one bed for each 577 inhabitants. [12]

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  2. ↑ "Maldives - HRMI Rights Tracker". rightstracker.org. Retrieved 2022-03-25.
  3. ↑ "Maldives - HRMI Rights Tracker". rightstracker.org. Retrieved 2022-03-25.
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  5. ↑ "Maldives - HRMI Rights Tracker". rightstracker.org. Retrieved 2022-03-25.
  6. ↑ "Maldives". Commonwealth Health online. 2018. Retrieved 20 November 2018.
  7. ↑ "At a Glance: Health and Nutrition in the Mald". UNICEF. 2010. Retrieved 20 November 2018.
  8. ↑ "With Highest Covid Rate, Maldives Imposes 16-Hour Curfew". BloombergQuint.
  9. ↑ "Maldives reports 61st Covid-19 death in ongoing month of May". raajje.mv.
  10. ↑ "Youth advocates for family planning break taboos in the Maldives". UNPFA. 12 November 2018. Retrieved 20 November 2018.
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