Comments on: Maldives: Inhumane Treatment of Migrant Workers

By: R Raju

R Raju — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 13:59:01 +0000

Some times back administration people of hospital have been charged with commiting bribary in the name of giving favourable report for renewal of contracts.Those doctors who refused to pay the money were harassed like anything.Many false chrges were brought against them so that they are compelled to oblige them.What a inhuman treatment?

By: R Raju

R Raju — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 13:49:17 +0000

With the change of Govt., life of expac.doctors have become pathetic.Local administration of some of the hospitals are exploiting doctors in the name of shortage of funds.They aere extracting works from them like any thing but denying them their genuine over time in the name of shortage of fund .I dont know whether M.O.H. is aware of this injustice commited to these poor doctors or not .Otherwise also ,hospital adminisrtration treat doctors very badly .They put lot of restrictions on the doctors and treat them like a slave .They even interfere with the treatment of patients

By: R lingam

R lingam — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 17:50:53 +0000

The contracts for doctors under MOH is for name sake .The MOH is changing rules one sided with scant regards to the doctors who have signed them .Its more of a slavery.You have to work as they want .You have got no say in anything. You are totally at their mercy. The contract is a mean to fool the overseas doctors.Once your passport is deposited at Male u see their true color.It is no less than a hell.

By: Dr R.Lingam

Dr R.Lingam — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 06:55:07 +0000

Just like workers ,even expat doctors & teacher are treated very badly here .There is lot of discrimination against expact doctors &teachers.Treating patients is a risky job. The People of this place & administration constantly interfere with the treatment .On medicine like subject, they would like you to towe their line. If you refuse to do so ,yoy will be harassed. They would blame you for every thing . If something goes wrong with the patient due to their interference or the negligence of local nursing staff .All blame would be put on expac doctor,he will be penalised while local staff would go scott free.This is the state of affairs here ,really very bad.

By: ginadhuvasruli

ginadhuvasruli — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 11:12:25 +0000

Here’s the lowdown on what it is to be doctor working for the ministry of health in the maldives. It’s a story that will never be fully told. As for the maldivian soceity being kind – it comes only at face value and only under pre-conditions of their personal satisfaction far from good service. The ministry has never ever lifted it’s finger once to investigate claims about misbehaviours – esply the numerous allegations of sexual misbehaviours of doctors in some places- this lack of investigation doesn provide justice for either the victim or a misjudged doctor. .doctors and teachers get harassed everyday on the streets by students, jobless youngsters, even middle-aged men standing inside a mosque compound at prayer times – all maldivian . None of the other members of the maldivian soceity think that a foreigner esp one who is getting paid more than a manual labourer deserves none of the money let alone the right to a little dignity. The harassment continues in the workplace. The only communiques the moh sends to the doctors in english – the contract papers and the resignation acceptance papers. Increase in work timings and decrease in pay are practised differently in different places depending on the pattern of how the health centre in charge of that place decides to interpret the presidents tv speech about the civil service commission or guidelines faxed to him by the moh. Doctors are not allowed to make important decisions about the healthcare of their patients but are immediately blamed for anythin that might go wrong with his health. .should they object to the well-oiled and endemic nepotism and favouritism at the workplace , it’s a “complaint call -> punishment transfer” awaits instantly.

By: Dr R .raju

Dr R .raju — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 15:40:02 +0000

Doctors emloyed under Minstry of Health Maldives are not happy the way they are treated by locals or by MOH.There is lot of discrimination .Working conditions are also not good.For salary u have to wait for months togather before it is released

By: watchemm

watchemm — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 18:28:25 +0000

hello everyone!esp.ly raju!

i am very intersted in knowing what the state of expat teachers, doctors n professionals is in the maldives.
while it is true that the financially malnourished are always walked over in any part of the world; true xenophobia does not not restrict itself to a certain pecuniary strata of a multiethnic soceity.
in other words, if financially sound members of the soceity are also discriminated on the basis of their ethnicity or origin; that i think goes to say more about this “growing trend” of xenophobia.
also, is this discrimination restricted only expats or are there gender inequalities as well?
because I’v always noticed that it is not unusual for the abovesaid problems to go hand in hand

By: raju

raju — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 15:33:17 +0000

Hey dinesh,

Did you know how expetriate teachers are treated in schools and how doctors are treated in hospitals?

Workers are here tolarating all these due to their financial difficulties and unemployment in their countries!!!!!
-Raju

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By: Ali Futha

Ali Futha — Tue, 04 Sep 2007 21:26:38 +0000

Dinesh Bhaskar. The issue here is not whether you have been maltreated or not. The issue here is hundreds of migrant workers have been treated inhumanely in the Maldives over the course of a couple of years. Nobody is saying “entire Maldives is like this”. After reading this post, I think what is discussed is that xenophobia is becoming a new trend in the society. Nobody is assessing “the entire Maldivian community” here. Dinesh. You talk as if only one incident has occurred. Read the post again. How many incidents have occurred?

By: Dinesh Bhaskar

Dinesh Bhaskar — Tue, 04 Sep 2007 07:27:28 +0000

I work in the Maldives and am an Indian National. Even though I do not condone this terrible treatment meted out in any way, I would certainly like to highlight that the entire Maldives is NOT AT ALL like this.

I have been here for the past 15 years and have a number of Maldivian friends and colleagues and have never been treated in any malicious manner till date!

This is an unfortunate minority of Maldivians who are using this kind of channel to get their voices heard for other hidden agendas of theirs or to vent out their frustrations.

Also, please do appreciate, in all our countries like India, Srilanka, Pakistan and Bangladesh , we do have such self-centered miscreants who do things totally out of line and against the norms.

Hence, it would be extremely unfair and terrible to assess the entire Maldivian community based on this unfortunate and terrible incident. Maldivians in general are absolutely peace loving, decent, dignified people and would be the FIRST people to raise alarms at this terribly unfortunate incident.

I sincerely hope and pray that the Maldives government is able to catch hold of the miscreants and do the needful fairly / take some strict action, on an urgent basis before this gets blown totally out of propotion… Dinesh