Kidney Failure Patients in Morocco Face Treatment Crisis Amid Pandemic

25 November 2020 – byBladi.net · 1 min read

Faced with the high cost of drugs and the saturation of hospitals caused by the health crisis due to the coronavirus, patients with kidney failure in the Ida-Outanane prefecture are suffering martyrdom. Gathered within a collective, they call on the competent health authorities to look into their case.

Abandoned to their own fate and without care since the start of the epidemic, these patients whose health continues to deteriorate no longer know which door to knock on, reports Le 360.

For Hosnia Battar, president of an association that supports dialysis patients, "the waiting list is considered by the patient suffering from kidney failure as a death list". "Given the length of the period during which the patient waits for the blood filtration operation, this often leads to his death, due to the serious complications that result," she warns.

To avoid other tragedies, the members of the association are sounding the alarm so that the competent authorities can spare these patients a certain death.