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The Minister of Health and Social Protection, Amine Tahraoui, presented, Tuesday to the House of Representatives, the broad outlines of the sector’s work program for the year 2025.
During the presentation of the sectoral budget of the ministry for the year 2025 before the members of the Social Sectors Commission, Mr. Tahraoui indicated that the ministry will work, within the framework of the development of human resources, to develop 7 draft decrees implementing law 09-22 relating to health professions, before transmitting them to the General Secretariat of the Government.
Also, he placed emphasis on strengthening basic and continuing training by continuing to expand the training map and the rehabilitation of the Higher Institutes of Nursing and Technical Health Professions, under the Ministry of Health and Social Protection, in addition to increasing the reception capacity of professional training institutes in the field of health to reach 1,235 places in 2024-2025.
Concerning the health offer, Mr. Tahraoui explained that the ministry will continue, over the next year, construction work on the hospital centers of Laâyoune (500 beds), Guelmim (300 beds), Errachidia (500 beds) and Beni Mellal (520 beds), in addition to the reconstruction of the Ibn Sina University Hospital in Rabat with a clinical capacity estimated at 1,044 beds, in addition to the continued construction and reconstruction of 78 health establishments, including provincial and regional hospitals and local hospitals, in addition to new projects.
Among the centers affected by construction and reconstruction are the regional hospital center of Beni Mellal (450 beds), the provincial hospital center of Guercif (190 beds), the provincial center of Nador (250 beds), the provincial hospital center of Azillal (120 beds) and the Sidi Ifni provincial hospital center (120 beds), in addition to 40 local hospitals with a total capacity of 1,835 beds.
Concerning primary health care establishments, Mr. Tahraoui reported the completion of the rehabilitation of the remaining 534 establishments and the completion of the remaining projects as part of the program to reduce spatial and social disparities in rural areas.
Likewise, he affirmed that the ministry will work to establish the obligation to respect the progress of treatments, to activate the national primary health care strategy, in addition to reviewing all basic treatments in health care establishments. primary health care and expand the scope of family medicine at this level.
It is also planned, during the year 2025, to continue the implementation of the information system of primary health care establishments at the level of all regions, to activate the common medical file, in addition to the continued work on a project to operate interoperable platforms to link information systems and hospitals affiliated with the ministry with a national database, he noted.
Mr. Tahraoui also announced the continued activation of the new national strategy for reducing maternal and neonatal deaths 2023-2027, while continuing to work on the dissemination of the early detection program for congenital hypothyroidism and deafness. in newborns and the generalization of the maternal death surveillance system and clinical audit of newborn deaths, in addition to the supply to primary health care establishments, free of charge, of the 12 vaccines recommended in the national vaccination schedule. vaccination.
Among the projects scheduled for 2025 are the organization of a national campaign to detect and manage health problems among the school population for the benefit of more than 1.5 million students, as well as the regular organization of medical examinations in the university community for the benefit of first-year students for the year 2024-2025.
