Rabat – Morocco seeks to increase the number of health professionals to more than 90,000 by 2025 from the current 68,000.
Head of government Aziz Akhannouch chaired on Monday in Rabat the signing ceremony of a framework agreement on the implementation of a program aimed at boosting the number of health professionals by 2030.
The objective is also to reach the quota of 24 health professionals for every 10,000 inhabitants by the same deadline of 2025, and 45 health professionals for every 10,000 inhabitants by 2030.
Reaching this goal requires doubling the number of medicine, pharmacy, and dentistry graduates, as well as tripling the number of nursing and health technology graduates by 2025.
Under the framework agreement, three faculties of medicine and pharmacy as well as three university hospitals will be opened in Errachidia, Beni Mellal, and Guelmim for an estimated budget of more than MAD 3 billion ($294 million).
The Moroccan government recently announced its decision to reduce the duration of medical training from seven to six years, in a bid to meet the objectives of the kingdom’s New Development Model (NDM) and the national project to extend health insurance (AMO) to every Moroccan.
Earlier this month, on July 13, King Mohammed VI chaired a council of ministers that closed with the adoption of a draft decree to improve Morocco’s national health sector.
According to the government, the goal of the health-related reforms is mainly to promote good governance among hospitals across the country while strengthening the exchange of expertise by encouraging foreign medical experts and experts from the Moroccan diaspora to contribute to revamp the country’s health sector.
The new plan also aims to upgrade health care services to meet Moroccan expectations in terms of facilitating access to health services.
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