Overcrowded Maternity Ward Crisis: Tiznit Hospital Struggles to Accommodate Pregnant Women

Welcoming pregnant women is an impossible mission for the maternity ward of the Tiznit provincial hospital. At the end of the week, the most serious cases present themselves there, while the service does not have a health platform capable of dealing with a caesarean section, or other difficulties. Thus, to deal with this problem that has been going on for a long time, the Hassan II hospital in Agadir becomes the inevitable option.

A situation that does not suit the maternity ward of the Agadir regional hospital either, which, by constantly welcoming so many people, finds itself constantly overwhelmed. The medical and paramedical staff can no longer cope with the ever-increasing number of people arriving at the Tiznit provincial hospital, because they are most often "complicated cases that require specific intervention and special attention", reports Al Akhbar.

The main reason explaining this uncomfortable situation for both the medical staff and the patients is "the lack of medical staff assigned to the mother and child department at the Tiznit provincial hospital". The service has only one obstetrician who works continuously throughout the week.

According to medical sources cited by the newspaper, this situation cannot last forever, given the danger it poses, both for the patients and for the child they are carrying. The maternity ward could count on a second doctor, but, explains the same source, "since he was the subject of a disciplinary work stoppage, he has not returned to his post, nor has he been replaced, despite the multiple requests addressed in this sense to the regional health department".