Moroccan Health Advocates Push for Free COVID-19 PCR Tests Amid Case Surge

For a few weeks now, Morocco has been facing a sharp rise in Covid-19 cases. This has brought back the issue of coverage of PCR tests by health insurance. This justifies the new media outing of the Moroccan Network for the Right to Health, demanding the free tests, reports the daily Al Akhbar.

For the network, CNOPS should not indefinitely postpone this issue, forcing Moroccans to go into debt to get tested. In the laboratory, PCR tests cost 700 dirhams per person, and sometimes an entire family finds itself having to use them in case of infection of one of its members. A huge fortune for some households, especially at a time when the health crisis has considerably reduced the income of many Moroccans.

The Network calls on the Ministry of Health, the Ministry of Economy and Finance, and the Insurance and Social Welfare Control Authority (ACAPS) to intervene to accelerate the reimbursement of PCR tests, and the free testing that will now be done.