
France Provides $200 Million Loan to Support Morocco's Universal Health Insurance Expansion
France has provided financing of 200 million euros to Morocco, to support the generalization of compulsory Health Insurance.

France has provided financing of 200 million euros to Morocco, to support the generalization of compulsory Health Insurance.

There is no need to worry about the epidemiological situation in Morocco. This is what the Minister of Health, Khalid Aït Taleb, affirmed in an intervention during the Council of Government held this Thursday.

Morocco has decided to extend the suspension of air and maritime links , according to sources close to the air transport circles cited by the MAP.

Lahcen Achmine, a 46-year-old Moroccan, is now a frontline nurse against Covid-19 in Terrassa (Barcelona) and runs a multinational toy company. Before arriving in Spain, he was a volunteer for social actions and managed a construction company in Morocco.

Imane, a young Moroccan who suffered from Tetralogy of Fallot, had been operated on in 2006 in a hospital in Valencia thanks to the NGO ADRA. She was only two and a half years old. Today, seventeen years later, she meets those who saved her life.

The Ministry of Health has decided to revise the prices of several drugs . This reduction concerns some antifungal products, anti-inflammatory drugs, antihypertensives and anesthesia products.

The Private University Hospital (HUP) of Marrakech served as the site for the realization of one of the most delicate surgical interventions in the world. This was the implantation of prostheses in the two knees of a Nigerian patient, who suffered from chronic joint pain. The operation was performed by a 100% Moroccan medical team.

To protect itself from the new wave of Covid-19 in Europe and Africa, Morocco has also decided to stop maritime links for two weeks, starting this Monday, November 29.

Faced with the rapid spread of the new Covid-19 variant, Omicron, particularly in Europe and Africa, Morocco has just decided to suspend all passenger flights to the Kingdom for a period of 15 days.

Morocco has just updated its health protocol for international travel by establishing a List C of countries whose travelers are prohibited from entering Moroccan territory.

Dr. Abdelkrim Meziane Belfquih has been appointed Interim Secretary General at the Ministry of Health and Social Protection.

The public prosecutor’s office has instructed the presidents of the courts to give special treatment to complaints concerning attacks on health professionals .