
Brain Drain: Over 6,000 Moroccan Doctors Work in France Amid Home Country Shortage
Nearly 6,150 doctors are working in French hospitals while Morocco suffers from a severe shortage of health personnel.

Nearly 6,150 doctors are working in French hospitals while Morocco suffers from a severe shortage of health personnel.

The American rapper of Moroccan origin, French Montana , looks back on his hospitalization in 2019 and provides new details.

41 people died in the last 24 hours from the coronavirus, announces the Ministry of Health. With these figures, the number of patients who have succumbed to Covid-19 in Morocco since the beginning of the epidemic now stands at 7,355.

The French Minister of Citizenship, Marlène Schiappa, had announced last September her wish to facilitate naturalization for all foreign workers who remained on the front line during the health crisis. A pharmacist of Moroccan origin has just been naturalized after spending about ten years in France.

Orhan Vural, president of the regional council of the Muslim cult of Lower Normandy, has launched an appeal for help to save Reda, a 4-year-old child living in Morocco and burned second-degree. It is urgent to evacuate him to a hospital in Flers.

Hair and beauty salons, centers of beauty par excellence, can become risky places for the female population of Agadir . They receive inappropriate medical care that outrages health professionals.

Each person cured of Covid-19 is an explosion of joy for the medical staff. But the one recorded at the regional hospital center of Fqih Bensalah is a miracle. A 106-year-old patient, admitted in critical condition to this hospital center, returned home after fully recovering from the disease.

The psychiatric hospital in Berrechid has recorded 22 positive cases and two deaths. This alarming situation, due to the lack of quality human resources, has provoked the anger of civil society and health sector unions.

The health authorities of the province of Essaouira have adopted new measures at the Mogador international airport, after the appearance of a new variant of Covid-19 in certain European countries. The provincial health delegation remains highly mobilized to protect the population and prevent the spread of this virus on a local scale.

The emergence in the United Kingdom of a new strain of Coronavirus following a mutation is causing panic everywhere, to the point that Morocco has decided to suspend flights between the two countries. But information has been circulating since then, claiming that this new variant of the virus has been detected in Morocco.

While it is known to all that Morocco has turned to China for the Covid-19 vaccine, many Moroccans are not really reassured. They want to know the reasons for this choice and how the vaccination process is progressing.

29 Moroccan doctors have obtained French nationality for having contributed to the fight against the coronavirus pandemic. In total, 700 doctors have been naturalized French out of 2,890 applications.