Ambulance Drivers Paid Kickbacks for Patient Deliveries in Marrakech Clinics

The scene took place in a private clinic in the tourist area of Gueliz, in Marrakech. An ambulance driver rebelled against this health facility that refused to give him a commission for bringing a patient who had fainted, reports the newspaper Al Ahdath Al Maghribia.

What he considers a right, even a common practice, in the health sector, was denied to him on the grounds that none of the administrative officials of the establishment were present at the time. Stung, the ambulance driver hurled insults at the receptionist and the management of the clinic.

According to the same newspaper, this unfortunate incident lays bare the extent of an unhealthy practice well known to both the tourism sector and another, as vital as that of health. The incident obviously calls for questioning this situation where patients are considered, by some health professionals, as objects to be bargained, analyzes the same source.