Marrakech Builds Second Field Hospital as COVID-19 Cases Surge

15 August 2021 – byJérôme · 1 min read

Given its alarming epidemiological picture of infections, as well as deaths, leading to additional pressure on its health system, a second field hospital is being set up in Marrakech to meet the growing need for hospital beds.

The new tent covers an area of 1,600 m², with a capacity of 200 beds equipped with all the necessary medical equipment for proper care of critical Covid-19 cases, informs L’Économiste, specifying that as of August 10, Marrakech has recorded nearly 67,000 cumulative cases and about 500 new infections per day and 8 deaths, not to mention the growing influx of cases admitted to intensive care, thus placing the city in the red zone, after Casablanca.

Given that the four hospitals dedicated to Covid (Ibn Tofail, the Mohammed VI University Hospital, Errazi, the Ibn Zohr hospital) are overwhelmed, the need for this new structure is urgent, the same source said, indicating that after the one at the Ibn Tofail hospital, under the Mohammed VI University Hospital Center (CHU) in Marrakech, this is the second tent dedicated that the authorities are setting up.

The alarming situation in the region has prompted the Minister of Health to react. Khalid Aït Taleb visited several hospital facilities in Marrakech and Essaouira.

Category: Morocco

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Marrakesh Casablanca Health Essaouira Coronavirus in Morocco (Covid-19) Khalid Aït Taleb