The Minister of Health announces a drop in the maternal mortality index in Morocco

This article was automatically translated from HIBAPRESS, the Arabic version:

This article was automatically translated from HIBAPRESS, the Arabic version:

Heba Press – Rabat

The Minister of Health and Social Protection, Amine Tahraoui, reported today Monday, during the oral questions session in the House of Representatives, that the maternal mortality index has decreased by a significant rate of 70 percent over the past two decades.

In his response to an oral question asked by the Authenticity and Modernity team, the Minister explained that the maternal mortality index rose from 244 deaths per 100,000 live births in 2000, to 72 deaths in 2020, “thanks to the efforts deployed by Morocco at the level of medical surveillance in the field of obstetrics and gynecology.

In this context, the government official confirmed that, in continuation of these achievements, the Ministry wishes to redouble its efforts to ensure appropriate medical supervision in the field of obstetrics and gynecology, by opening positions dedicated to training of medical specialists in this field. on a contractual basis depending on the residency competitions organized each year.

Mr. Al-Tahrawi highlighted the ministry’s keenness to support public hospitals every year with a group of vital specialties with the aim of ensuring the continuity of the provision of health services and guaranteeing the right to quality treatment, emphasizing “the importance of obstetrics and gynecology to guarantee the health of women in general and of mothers and newborns in particular.