Marrakech Builds Second Field Hospital as COVID-19 Cases Surge

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.