On Saturday at the Royal Palace in Rabat, King Mohammed VI presided over the signing ceremony of a partnership agreement between the Mohammed V Foundation for Solidarity, the Ministry of Health and Social Protection and MEDIOT Technology, concerning the deployment of a program of connected mobile medical units designed to improve access to medical services for people living in rural areas.
This program, whose agreement was signed by Khalid Ait Taleb, Minister of Health and Social Protection, Mohammed El Azami, Coordinator and member of the Board of Directors of the Mohammed V Foundation for Solidarity, and Mohamed Ben Ouda, CEO of MEDIOT Technology, reflects the Sovereign’s deep conviction that the right of access to healthcare services is one of the major pillars for consolidating citizenship and achieving comprehensive, integrated human development.
It is part of the royal project to reform the healthcare system and generalize social protection, and represents a new intervention model combining local care and telemedicine.
The pilot program involves the deployment of connected medical units in areas suffering from a lack of access to healthcare services.
Each unit comprises a general practitioner, two nurses and an administrative assistant. They are equipped with state-of-the-art biomedical equipment, enabling face-to-face medical consultations for general medicine and specialized teleconsultations via a connection with the central telemedicine platform, comprising specialists in gynecology-obstetrics, pediatrics, endocrinology, dermatology, ENT, cardiology and pneumology.
The program’s initial one-year phase involves the deployment of fifty connected mobile medical units across the Kingdom’s various regions, and more specifically in forty provinces. The choice of provinces was made on the basis of an analysis of health center positioning data at provincial level.
The first phase of the program will require the mobilization of twenty specialist doctors for the central telemedicine platform, fifty general practitioners, 100 nurses and 100 assistants, spread across the different provinces. A budget of 180 million dirhams is earmarked for the project.
The connected mobile medical units program is the result of efforts by the Department of Health to combat medical deserts and improve access to healthcare in rural areas, by drawing on the experience and know-how accumulated by the Mohammed V Foundation for Solidarity over more than 20 years in organizing medical caravans for the benefit of underprivileged populations living in areas far from medical facilities.
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