Moroccan university hospitals across the country staged protests in solidarity with a resident surgeon who committed suicide last Thursday in a French hospital after complaining to family and friends about bad treatment leaving him “exhausted.”
Doctors organized sit-ins in Casablanca, Rabat, Tangier, Marrakesh, Fez, Agadir, and Oujda to condemn what they described as “ inhuman and unprofessional practices that degrade the doctor’s dignity during their training,” sources present in one of the sit-ins told Hespress AR.
Yassine Rachid, who died by suicide on Thursday, suffered “humiliating treatment, psychological pressure and intimidation” while carrying out his duties.
Rachid was a final year student at the Casablanca CHU while undergoing training in a French hospital, where his body was found.
General Secretary of the National Committee of Residents and Internal Medicine Doctors in Morocco, Ilias El Khatibi told Hespress that sit-ins had a significant presence across all university hospital centers. Protesters held a moment of silence before taking the stage to talk “ about the reality of the health system in Morocco.”
The Committee, El Khatibi said plans to facilitate the establishment of listening platforms in all medical and university hospital centers, with the authority to intervene in cases where “excessive power or control,” has been used against trainees.
Khatibi called on “officials to take urgent and strict decisions and review the relevant legistlations.”
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