The Moroccan Ministry of Health and Social Protection said that it is exploring prospects for developing telemedicine services on a large scale in the public sector.
This came in the answer of the Minister of Health, Khaled Ait Taleb, in response to a written question on the matter submitted by Parliamentary Representative Mohamed Hachimi.
The government official confirmed that work is underway to develop a regulatory framework to support investment in telemedicine services.
Ait Taleb indicated that his ministry has adopted, since the year 2019, a model experiment, in partnership with the Moroccan Society for Telemedicine and the Mohammed VI University of Health Sciences, as well as the Ministry of the Interior.
the model targetted remote areas in the country, and used regions where access to health facilities is more difficult.
Accordingly, the ministry said that his administration has drawn up a list of 35 local communities to approve the project in its pilot phase, and define a precise scope that aims to cover primary health care services and some medical specialties, especially general medicine, cardiology, lung diseases, endocrinology, nephrology, and gynecology. And pediatrics.
The ministry recorded that the year 2018 witnessed the launch of the initial experiment with testing the remote counseling device in INFFCO in the Midelt region over a period of three months, with the selection of 6 sites to expand the experiment to include Midelt Azilal Fiquek and Taroudant.
All dispensaries’ professionals were also trained to use telemedicine equipment and practices, and to connect the concerned dispensaries to the Internet via satellite, while later work was done to expand the experiment to Taliouine, Telcent, and Ait Tamleel, until the end of 2019, when the service was expanded to include 35 centers.
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