The fight against the trade in poultry manure, intended for the animals to be sacrificed during Eid al-Adha, as led by the services of the National Office of Sanitary Safety of Food Products (ONSSA), is recording edifying results. Indeed, more than 1.8 tons of poultry manure have just been seized.
No less than 44 children fell ill in Chichaoua after being poisoned during an end-of-year school party. The situation occurred on Monday, June 24, 2019. One student had to be taken to the hospital to receive the necessary care.
The residents of Casablanca are called upon to take out their trash in the evening to allow the trucks to collect it during the hours of traffic fluidity. This situation has been in effect since Tuesday, June 25, 2019. This is what the authorities of the metropolis demand, who have just entrusted the delegated management of cleanliness to two new companies, for more efficiency.
Cheap and potentially dangerous medical equipment, from Spain or China, would begin to be distributed in Morocco, according to the Moroccan Association of Biomedical Equipment. The health of many Moroccans would be threatened.
The Military Court of Rabat sentenced two colonel-doctors, from the military hospitals of Marrakech and Agadir respectively, to one year in prison each. The two army officers were violating internal regulations by performing surgical operations in private clinics.
A Spanish report mentions the exorbitant prices of medicines in Morocco. Several Moroccan nationals, suffering from serious or chronic illnesses, prefer to buy their treatments in Ceuta, where prices are much lower than those practiced in Morocco.
Khadija El Qorti is a Moroccan woman whose generosity is manifested by her assistance to women with cancer.
A young man in his twenties died following a medical error committed by a nurse in a private clinic in Fez. The latter gave him an injection of paraffin oil instead of paracetamol.
A former teacher in her sixties with breast cancer laments the situation of medicine in private clinics, which is no longer a noble and humane profession but pure business. Doctors have become intermediaries for medical laboratories, and busy intimidating patients and dramatizing their cases in order to extract maximum gains and profits.
For better management of obesity, which remains a real public health problem in Morocco, a national plan for the prevention and fight against overweight and obesity 2019-2021 has been put in place. It relies on the teams of the University Hospital of Lille, whose reputation in this field is established, for greater effectiveness.
Abdelouafi Laftit , Moroccan Minister of the Interior, is back at his duties after several weeks of convalescence.
In the localities of Khoualka and Ras El Aïn, both under the province of Youssoufia, a team from the regional directorate of ONSSA, accompanied by local authorities and gendarmerie elements, has just proceeded to the destruction of more than one and a half hectares of mint crops unfit for consumption.