Outrage as Woman Forced to Give Birth on Street Outside Closed Morocco Hospital

The filmed scene is making the rounds of social media and shows the woman on the ground, surrounded by her husband and a few family members. It is there, lying on the ground and exposed to the elements that she gives life, in the absence of any medical assistance. The author of the video struggles to hide his discontent. "Look at the tragic state of this woman giving birth in front of the hospital in the absence of any healthcare personnel".

He shows the woman lying on the ground and wrapped with her baby in a blanket, with her husband next to her who is struggling to recover from his emotions. "We do not hold the nurses or health officials within the hospital responsible for this situation, but the new provincial delegate of the Ministry of Health who gave the order to close the maternity department of this health center. This is what it gives, this is the result of such a decision," reports Hespress.

The unknown behind the camera invites the parliamentarians and councilors of the city of Bir Jdid to work to correct the situation so that women do not end up giving life in such disastrous conditions in the 21st century, in a country where the health system is supposed to be impeccable. "The poor woman has still not been sutured and has not received the necessary care after a delivery," which can endanger her life and that of her child, fumes the author of the video.

This kind of scene that calls into question the Moroccan health system has already had a precedent. A woman had given birth in Fez under the same conditions. The Ministry of Health, which must play the role of gendarme, prefers to play that of the firefighter and refuses to tackle the essence of the problem: the revitalization of the health system, specifies the same source.