Since the announcement by King Mohammed VI of a universal social protection policy for all Moroccans, strategies aimed at implementing an adequate health policy in relation to the need for Royal Guidance have been implemented by the government. On Monday, the Head of Government, Aziz Akhannouch declared that the Supreme Health Authority should be established soon to ensure the continuity and quality of national health policies.
In his traditional face-to-face meeting with deputies,” during the plenary session on government policies in the House of Representatives, the Head of Government answered a question on the “national health system modernization project, explaining that this strategic body intervenes in the management of the compulsory health insurance and in the evaluation of the efficiency of the services of the various actors provided by the public and private sectors.
The Prime Minister explains the goals and plans for a reformed healthcare system and universal health insurance. A new authority for the general health system and a separate medicines agency are announced.
The body that will be set up will deal with the development of training guides and best practices in the medical field, and will ensure the proper application and distribution of care services to patients and health professionals, a he added. This body is able to ensure real continuity of the national health policy and to strengthen plans and major projects, as well as to ensure the integration and mutual assistance of health policies and the basic orientations of general medicine, inform the Head of Government.
A new pharmaceutical agency to strengthen supply
In order to improve the governance of drug policy in the Kingdom, the Head of Government stressed that as part of the structural reform of the health system, the government aims to create a national drug and health products agency, which will have financial and administrative autonomy and whose task will be to follow the process of developing the national pharmaceutical policy and to contribute to its implementation and to respond to changes and challenges in this area.
Strengthening the kingdom’s pharmaceutical sovereignty can increase health security and ensure equal access to drugs and medical care, the prime minister said, adding that by supporting domestic production and manufacturing of generic drugs, citizens will have access to basic medicines at affordable prices. In this regard, Akhannouch reiterated the government’s strong support for the project for the production plant of vaccines against Covid-19 and other vaccines, the construction of which was authorized by King Mohammed VI, have been initiated, a work that will strengthen the kingdom’s vaccine sovereignty and make vaccines available in bulk to Africa.
Encourage blood donations
The blood stock situation in the Kingdom is worrying according to several alerts issued by the professionals concerned. On this subject, Akhannouch stressed that the government is working on the establishment of the Moroccan Blood Agency as soon as possible to achieve self-sufficiency in vital blood products while blood transfusion centers in Morocco are facing difficulties. and that this issue is vital for the health of the population, since the strategic blood supply lasts only a few days.
The agency is to develop and implement a national strategy for the supply of blood and blood products, issue permits for the establishment of blood supply in regional health association hospitals, develop diagnostic and treatment and ensure compliance with blood donation standards.
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