Moroccan Politician Criticizes COVID-19 Response in Open Letter to King

"I am writing these words at a time when the virus is ravaging my body and those of my family members. Since our infection was confirmed, no one has contacted us, neither the authorities nor the health services," he wrote in the letter published on his Facebook page, reports Hespress.

After the symptoms, Khalid Achibane had the test done at the Harhoura international laboratory for 700 dirhams, he recounts, adding that "after 48 hours, the laboratory refused to give me the result by phone, asking me to come and pick it up in person, even though they already know that I am contaminated. Can you imagine the situation if [...] I had to take the bus or a taxi to get there?" he asked. At the Témara hospital as well as at a center for an ECG, he only received a bad welcome and a packet of vitamin C. "I have no idea, so far, of the result of the ECG or the prescription to follow," complains Khalid.

Your Majesty, "they lie in their reports, there is no strategy, no one cares about the cases. (...) People are dying at home, without any follow-up, and people are spreading the disease (...) If things continue this way, we will fall into the worst, may God preserve us," he concluded.