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Morocco’s health ministry and Israel’s IMS Ovadia Group signed a Memorandum of Understanding to build 5 hospitals in the country for a total cost of 5 billion dirhams ($500 mln). The deal is part of Morocco’s efforts to improve health services and bridge the gap in bed capacity between regions. The five new hospitals will […]
The health sector in Morocco offers huge opportunities for foreign investors, including from the United Kingdom, participants in a webinar held by the British Chamber of Commerce for Morocco (BritCham) stressed on Thursday. The booming sector of health is favored by the evolution of the regulatory framework, public-private partnerships and the rise of telemedicine, the […]
Morocco has introduced incentives and removed legal barriers to encourage foreign companies to invest in its health sector and attract foreign doctors to fill in shortages, health minister Khaled Ait Taleb said. In an interview with Reuters, Health Minister Khaled Ait Taleb said the health system will have to deal with an increase in demand […]
The European investment bank provided Morocco last year with €617 million to support the Kingdom’s response efforts to covid-19, the private sector, SMEs and agricultural sector companies. The European bank has doubled in 2020 its funding to Morocco compared to 2019, said the bank in a press release, noting that it took wide-ranging action under […]
At a time when Morocco continues to rely on its health system to cope with the coronavirus pandemic, two OECD tax experts have proposed tax reforms to ensure sustainable financing for the health sector. In countries around the world grappling with the current health and economic crisis, the urgency to mobilize domestic resources has […]
The European Union will extend Morocco €100 million (1.1 billion dirhams) to support the financing of the health sector in the context of the Covid-19 crisis The related agreement was signed Tuesday by Economy & Finance Minister Mohamed Benchaâboun, Minister of Health Khalid Ait Taleb, and ambassador of the EU in Morocco, Claudia Wiedey, The […]