Moroccan Hospital Sparks Outrage with 2-Year Wait for Cardiac Patient Appointment

A medical appointment with a date of March 2026 for a patient suffering from a chronic illness is causing controversy. On the web, many Moroccan internet users have expressed their astonishment at this date set by the administration of the Moulay Youssef Hospital Center in Rabat. "Where is health and social protection?" questions a Moroccan internet user. "If the patient had not used social networks, we would have waited two years or he would have died a martyr waiting for a routine medical appointment that could come or not," another indignantly.

Faced with the controversy, the Ministry of Health and Social Protection, the administration of Moulay Ismail Hospital, explained that it is actually a typographical error due to digitization. Moreover, the Moroccan Minister of Health, Khalid Aït Taleb, had, during one of the sessions in Parliament, stated that such errors occur due to the lack of human resources in the administration of hospitals in Morocco.