In Morocco, summer rhymes with tourism but also scorpion stings. According to figures provided by the Moroccan Poison Control and Pharmacovigilance Center, around 26,000 stings are recorded, of which 44 led to deaths. 95% of the deaths are children.
The International University of Rabat (UIR) will be equipped with a university hospital on its campus. The project studies have been carried out and the oncology, hematology, cardiovascular, trauma, neurology, fields have been considered as priorities.
To accelerate the pace of the vaccination campaign against Covid-19, a military medical team composed of doctors and nurses has been called in to reinforce the Ministry of Health. They are deployed in several regions of the kingdom.
"The new post-Covid-19 European Neighborhood Policy" is the theme of the conference organized on Wednesday by the Policy Center for the New South (PCNS) in partnership with EuroMeSCo, which brought together several experts from different fields. They reflected, among other things, on the implementation in 2022 of the generalization of health coverage in Morocco, a project launched by King Mohammed VI.
Moroccan pharmacists are currently complaining of a shortage of drugs necessary in the Covid-19 therapeutic protocol. Bad news for citizens, especially since positive cases have multiplied in recent weeks.
The Council of Government, meeting on Tuesday in Rabat, decided to extend the state of health emergency throughout the national territory until September 10, 2021, as part of efforts to combat the spread of the Covid-19 pandemic .
In Belgium, the Saint-Luc University Clinics, the Maritime Medical Center and two doctors prosecuted for involuntary manslaughter due to lack of foresight or precaution following the death of Imane, a 14-year-old Moroccan girl on June 15, 2011, have been acquitted. This is the decision handed down by the Brussels Correctional Court in mid-June.
Pregnant and breastfeeding women will soon be included in the Covid-19 vaccination program in Morocco. The option was discussed by the vaccination scientific committee on Monday, July 26, in the presence of the Minister of Health, Khalid Aït Taleb.
Morocco received one million doses of the Chinese Sinopharm vaccine on Tuesday, July 27, 2021. This will accelerate the vaccination campaign against coronavirus, which has been extended to people aged 25 to 29.
With the new prevention measures dictated by the government in order to effectively fight the Covid-19 pandemic, the situation should normally improve within two weeks. However, if the deterioration persists, the government will be forced to take much stricter measures.
The spread of the Delta variant in Morocco could not only disrupt election campaigns but also push the government to postpone the municipal, regional and parliamentary elections scheduled for September 8.
A 5-year-old girl from Ceuta died in a private clinic in Tangier as a result of the respiratory problems she had been suffering from since birth. She and her parents had been barred from boarding the plane that was to take them to Malaga because of the oxygen bottle that fed the respiratory device connected to the girl.