Morocco to Allow Foreign Doctors to Practice, Boosting Healthcare Workforce

During an intervention at the House of Representatives, the Minister of Health and Social Protection, Khaled Ait Taleb, announced the upcoming publication of the implementing texts for the law on the health function.

This measure aims to encourage the arrival of foreign medical professionals and thus improve human resources in the health sector in Morocco. This initiative comes, he said, in a context of international competition to attract medical skills, thus recognizing the global need to strengthen personnel in this crucial field.

In detail, Law No. 33.21, reforming medical practice in Morocco, opens the door to a diversification of health personnel with the reception of foreign doctors and the return of Moroccan practitioners trained abroad. Currently, 453 international doctors are already contributing to the dynamism of the private sector. This strategy is part of a desire to counter the exodus of national skills, while enriching the available healthcare offer.

"At a time when Moroccan medical personnel are migrating abroad, foreign medical skills wish to work in Morocco, and this will be done through the twinning that the State is undertaking with other countries in order to attract more medical staff, and also through an incentive system in the public sector," he affirmed.