Morocco Aims to Boost Domestic Medical Device Manufacturing, Reduce Imports

Promote "made in Morocco" in the field of local manufacture of medical devices which is 90% dependent on imports. This is the full scope of the agreement on the development of industrialization and local sourcing of medical devices and health products signed between the Ministries of Industry and Trade and Health and Social Protection and the Moroccan Association of Health Groups (AMGS) and the Medical Cluster (CM), on December 28. The latter has more than 40 members combining government departments, industrialists, universities and experts.

Specifically, it is a question of capitalizing on Morocco’s industrial achievements and on the resilience, innovation and agility that operators have shown during the health crisis related to Covid-19, to work for the promotion of local manufacturing as a lever for industrial recovery, job creation and export. According to the Ministry of Industry, "thanks to this medical cluster, the local manufacture of medical devices is becoming an industrial force of the kingdom".

The Ministry of Health will be responsible for making all institutional expertise, qualified human and technical potential available to local industrial establishments to support them. The AMGS is responsible for making the infrastructure belonging to its members available to the medical cluster and project leaders for innovation for the realization of analyzes and tests on innovative medical devices. As for the CM, it has assigned itself the mission of supporting project leaders capable of meeting the needs of the local market in the field of medical devices and health products.