With the increase in the number of Covid-19 infections and the saturation of hospitals, the demand for oxygen machines has exploded. Prices are soaring and professionals denounce flaws in the supply system.
The Moroccan Network for the Right to Health is pleading with the National Social Security Fund (CNOPS) for PCR tests to be reimbursed or free, not only to relieve Moroccans, but also to support the government’s policy calling for massive screening.
Transparency Maroc criticizes the management of the public health sector markets during the Covid-19 pandemic. The NGO renews its concerns about a management it considers surrounded by irregularities and gray areas.
Health Minister Khaled Ait Taleb has alerted healthcare professionals to the optimal use of oxygen in hospitals .
The use of a third dose of vaccine for certain people is still under study. For Moroccan scientists, the most urgent thing at the moment is to focus on ways to achieve collective immunity with the first two doses.
In terms of the fight against the Covid-19 pandemic, Morocco continues to innovate. It has just opened its first digitized vaccination center, the "smart vaccination center". A strategy to boost the ongoing vaccination campaign in order to quickly reach collective immunity.
Morocco is grappling with its third wave of Covid-19 infections : 5,043 new Covid-19 cases were recorded as of August 9, 2021, according to figures from the Ministry of Health. A worsening of the epidemic that is manifested above all by a surge in cases and the saturation of intensive care services in certain hospitals.
A field hospital is under construction in Guelmim-Oued Noun to cope with the explosion of Covid-19 cases that the entire region is experiencing.
The Ministry of Health has made screening tests one of the key factors in the fight against the spread of the coronavirus. But the prices offered by the laboratories do not encourage citizens and do not fit the policy of the Ministry of Health.
The resurgence of COVID-19 infections in Marrakech calls for the mobilization of all available human resources in the region. Private sector doctors are now being called upon to contribute to the early detection of COVID-19 cases.
Casablanca and Marrakech would be strongly affected by the resurgence of COVID-19 cases. Specialists already announce a critical situation due to the lack of intensive care beds.
The Ministry of Health has, this Saturday, opened Covid-19 vaccination to young people aged 20 and over. It wants to vaccinate as quickly as possible to counter the spread of the virus and its variants.