King Mohammed VI chaired the signing ceremony of a partnership agreement, Saturday at the Royal Palace in Rabat, between the Mohammed V Foundation for Solidarity, the Ministry of Health and Social Protection, and the company MEDIOT Technology for the deployment of a program of connected mobile medical units aimed at improving access to medical services for rural communities.
This program seeks to make access to health care a pillar for fostering citizenship and achieving global and integrated human development. It is meant to blend community-based care with telemedicine to modernize the health system and broaden social protection, mainly in locations where health care services are limited.
Each unit will include a general practitioner, two nurses, and an administrative assistant, in addition to cutting-edge biomedical equipment for face-to-face consultations or teleconsultations depending on the medical field.
The program will consist initially (in the first year) of fifty connected mobile medical units deployed in forty provinces. This first phase will cost 180 million dirhams, and will mobilize twenty specialized doctors for teleconsultations, fifty general practitioners, 100 nurses, and 100 staff members.
The agreement was signed by Khalid Ait Taleb, Minister of Health, 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.