Health Ministry Contracts Under Scrutiny: Lawmakers Uncover ’Dysfunctions’ During Covid Crisis

The Ministry of Health has not yet reacted after the presentation of this report which lays bare dysfunctions, abuses and favoritism, reports Al Massae, specifying that Minister Khalid Aït Taleb "did not attend" the parliamentary session devoted to the examination of this report.

The document notes that the "45 companies" with which the ministry has concluded contracts during the Covid-19 period "apparently do not have" the necessary and mandatory documents, adds the same source, which exposes the "many dysfunctions" noted in the operation of acquiring materials and products necessary for testing and analysis.

"Everyone wondered about the use that was made of the privileges granted to certain public institutions to conclude contracts outside the usual controls," said Mohamed El Ghalloussi, president of the Moroccan Association for the Protection of Public Property (AMPBP), about this parliamentary report which, according to him, "came to lift the veil on part of this reality". For El Ghalloussi, it is a question of "unregistered" companies, "significant sums of money" and "legal and financial dysfunctions".

The president of the AMPBP believes that the information contained in this report could be used to request the opening of a judicial investigation, because, he argues, it is offenses punishable by law. "It is necessary that a judicial investigation be opened by the public prosecutor’s office" in order to shed full light on this case, concluded the president of the AMPBP.