World Bank Allocates $35 Million to Boost Morocco’s Healthcare Workforce Amid Pandemic

Impressed by Morocco’s efforts in the fight against coronavirus, the World Bank wants to support the Moroccan program to fight the covid-19 pandemic with this financial envelope.

In addition to this significant financial envelope, $13 million should also be released under the Kingdom’s "primary health program". In a press release published on the internet, the World Bank indicates that these funds will support the strengthening of patient detection capacities through the provision of technical assistance, laboratory equipment and systems. They will also enable rapid screening of cases and facilitate contact tracing.

While welcoming this financial support, Health Minister Khalid Aït Taleb believes that it "will undoubtedly strengthen the efforts made [...] to contain this pandemic at the health, economic and social levels".

For the World Bank, this additional funding is justified by Morocco’s encouraging figures in the management of coronavirus. The financial institution also specifies that Morocco took drastic measures at the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic to contain the spread of the virus. It also supports that at the time of the "declaration of the state of health emergency, on March 20, the country had only 77 cases".

According to the same source, the Kingdom currently has 269 deaths and has one of the lowest mortality rates (number of deaths compared to the total number of infections) in the world (1.6%) against 83% recovery rate.