Morocco’s Private Clinics Under Fire for Exorbitant COVID-19 Bills to Deceased Patients’ Families

A few days after the case of the Casablanca clinic, which had demanded the sum of 200,000 dirhams for the return of the body of a pharmacist who died from the Coronavirus, another private hospital establishment in the capital has just sent a very expensive bill to the family of a Covid-19 victim.

For a 21-day stay in intensive care, the Rabat clinic billed no less than 5,000 dirhams per night, according to the invoice handed over to the family. They were ordered to pay the amount of 160,000 dirhams in order to be able to recover the remains.

One thing is certain: between the saturation of public hospitals and the jungle law imposed by the private sector, families are being held hostage. Some clinics are sorting patients according to their social background. A woman had died at the hospital, after being refused by all the clinics in the capital.