Major PCR Test Trafficking Ring Uncovered at Moroccan University Hospital

The two suspects arrested last Sunday are, according to sources from the daily Akhbar Al Yaoum, second-year medical interns continuing their training at the Faculty of Medicine and Pharmacy in Fez. Their modus operandi consists of diverting patients wishing to take a PCR test. They go to these people’s homes, take the samples which they transfer to the analysis laboratory of the University Hospital and pocket the money.

It was in this way that the two interns were arrested in flagrante delicto, while they were receiving 500 DH from a woman after a home test. The two suspects were brought before the public prosecutor on Tuesday morning, after the end of their custody.

This is not the first time that the Fez University Hospital has been splashed by this kind of affair. The hospital had already been the subject of an investigation into the embezzlement of public drugs and medical supplies sold outside any legal framework. A nurse and a medical representative had been arrested at the time.