Morocco Considers Private Sector Support as Casablanca COVID-19 Cases Surge

The news is announced by Said Ahmidouch, the wali of the Casablanca-Settat region, who announces the imminent signing of an agreement with the private sector in this regard. This agreement, explains Al Massae, will make it possible to mobilize private medical personnel to support the public sector, which is now overwhelmed by the worsening of the health situation in the metropolis. This will be against an exceptional allowance, adds the same source.

Also, the wali urges private doctors and nurses to engage in this important partnership, in anticipation of the worrying health situation expected for the months of November and December.

Anesthetists and emergency physicians who will be in high demand for on-call duties in public facilities are affected by this operation in the first instance. Then, the operation will be extended to nurses and specialist physicians in respiratory and heart diseases, the Arabic-language daily reports, adding that it will be a symbolic allowance, given that the health professionals concerned have already expressed their availability to support the public sector, at a time when solidarity is called for among all health practitioners.

It should be recalled that only a third of the kingdom’s doctors currently operate in the public sector, hence the inevitable recourse to the private sector.