Currently the kingdom has 23,000 doctors and has a shortage of 32,000 additional, to comply with the basic standards of the World Health Organization (WHO), indicates the CNDH in its report presented Friday.
The document reveals that hospitals have an acute shortage of doctors, while the needs are expected to increase in an “accelerated” way in the years to come, in particular with the generalization of social protection, population growth, the aging of the population and the increasing cases of chronic diseases.
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According to the report, this understaffing is also characterized by a disparity between regions. More than half of the health executives are concentrated on the Casablanca-Rabat – Kenitra axis, it is pointed out, adding that two thirds of the health professionals operate in four regions, while the others are spread over the eight remaining regions. This imbalance “hampers access to medical care for a large number of citizens”, indicates the CNDH
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