Health Mandatory Health Insurance covers 3.5 million people, Moroccan official Morocco TIMES 4/20/2006 | 6:48 pm
Six months after it started, the Mandatory Health Insurance (AMO) has enabled 3.5 million people to be covered for health care for the first time, said Minister of Health, Mohamed Sheikh Biadillah. He stressed the importance of this project to improve financing of the “heterogeneous and not very solidly-based structure" of this sector.
Minister of Health, Mohamed Sheikh Biadillah. Ph: Archives.
"The activation of AMO will reduce the pressure on the households, since 3.5 people million have benefited from medical services for the first time," said, on Thursday in Rabat, Biadillah who opened a workshop under the theme "Health: vision 2015".
The government has already earmarked MAD 2.5 billion to develop part of the Kingdom's 126 hospitals, and 2,510 medical facilities of basic care will be touched by this reform, the minister added.
While warning against the lack of human resources, he considered it necessary "to manage a demographic transition doubled with an epidemiologic transition". This double transition, he explained, involved threats weighing on pubic health and requiring more resources.
For Biadillah, the problem of human resources "touches the whole world and our country unfortunately does not escape from this challenge". “The health sector will need 10,000 more medical staff in 2020,” he stressed.
The sector counts 52,000 employees, half of whom are women, and the medical profession "has become feminised quickly. This increases the social problems to be solved when medical personnel are taken on", Biadillah pointed out.
He urged the problems of under-staffing, the lack of balance of the medical teams, the bad spatial distribution, the international migrations and the unequal working conditions between the regions to be faced.
The Minister recommended that "another form of governance" be based on transparency, regionalisation and optimisation of human resources, in order to effectively fight the inequalities concerning access to health care.
Among the measures to be taken to make up for the deficit of financing, the speakers suggested an increase of 10% of the ministry's budget, and mobilisation of an additional 6% of funds, through the development of partnership.
The two-day workshop, initiated with the support of the World Health Organisation (WHO), seeks to support the debate and reflexion around the means to work out a new vision for the health sector in Morocco.
je n'ai pas lu tout le texte et y a pas besoin d'etre toubib pour savoir que c'est encore tres loin du compte, la grosse majorité de la population n'a pas accés au soin de base au maroc et la situation sanitaire du pays est loin d'etra saine. pourquoi les riches speculateurs et autres "busneesmanS" qui se font soigner a l'etranger et dans des cliniques haute de gamme, mais qui seront un jour ou l'autre touchés par des epidimies qui se develloperont dans les bidonsvilles a 2km de chez eux, ne sont pas "taxé" d'avantage pour une repartition equitable du systeme de soin, capital le plus precieux d'une nation? s'ils vivent a des ann2es lummières des taudis, les ras enragés metterons 2heurs a débarquer chez eux sans prevenir.
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