King Mohammed VI inaugurates medical center in Errahma, Casablanca

Last updated Apr 10, 2023

King Mohammed VI attended the inauguration of the Mohammed V Foundation for Solidarity’s Medical Center of Proximity (CMP), which cost a total of 73 million dirhams, on Monday in the new town of Errahma in the Commune of Dar Bouaaza (Casablanca).

On this particular occasion, the Sovereign paid visits to the various parts of this solidarity project, demonstrating his dedication to enhancing healthcare for the general public, enhancing the delivery of care to populations at risk, and promoting a comprehensive, sustainable, and integrated human development.

The establishment of this facility is consistent with the Sovereign’s initiatives to assure frequent and periodic medical follow-up for those whose health conditions call for specialized consultations and to promote access to basic, local, and high-quality healthcare for the poor.

The new Proximity Medical Center, which will provide care around-the-clock and assist almost 60,000 people annually, would lessen the strain on the area’s hospitals while also sparing certain underprivileged patients from lengthy journeys that would be extremely costly for them and their families.

The CMP – Mohammed V Foundation for Solidarity serves over 300,000 people in the new town of Errahma and the surrounding areas as an intermediary structure between the network of basic health care establishments (level 1 and 2) and the hospital network, ensuring greater complementarity in the health map at the level of the Region.

As a result, the new Center has a close-by pole of medical emergencies with emergency doctors who will ensure the watch, particularly in the dechoquage, examination, care, observation, and plaster rooms.

The facility also has a unit for orthopedics and functional rehabilitation, a unit for specialized medical consultations (cardiology, ENT, gastroenterology, pediatrics, gynecology, and ophthalmology), a unit for orthopedics and functional rehabilitation, and a medical-technical pole with an operating room (one for general surgery and another for obstetric surgery) and a recovery room.

The CMP – Mohammed V Foundation for Solidarity of the new town of Errahma also houses a mother-child health center with an ultrasound machine, examination rooms, care, and a technical birth unit (4 delivery rooms, and a room for the care of infants).

The Center is home to a dental health care unit, a medical imaging unit (radiology, mammography, ultrasound, and panoramic), a medical analysis laboratory, a hospitalization unit (13 double rooms), a sterilization unit, a pharmacy, an awareness room, a kitchen, and a morgue. It also has the most up-to-date equipment in all of these areas. To assure patient medical transit, the new hospital also features an ambulance.

The newly opened Proximity Medical Center in the new city of Errahma is a part of a comprehensive program run by the Mohammed V Foundation for Solidarity and intended to support the national healthcare sector, just like those inaugurated by the Sovereign in the El Youssoufia district in Rabat and Sidi Moumen in Casablanca, as well as those in Témara and Tangier (Beni Makada district), which will be operational in 2022.

This program places a special emphasis on enhancing the current healthcare supply, establishing a community-wide healthcare system, and incorporating a complementary social approach into the patient support systems. Twelve regional medical facilities will be established as a result of the initiative, including three in Casablanca (Sidi Moumen, the new settlement of Errahma, and Hay Hassani), two in Fez, two in Tangier, and one in each of Agadir, Marrakech, Rabat, Salé, and Témara.

The Casablanca-Settat Regional Council, the Provincial Council of Nouaceur, the Mohammed V Foundation for Solidarity, and the Ministry of Health and Social Protection collaborated on this project. It supports the Foundation’s numerous initiatives in the medical and humanitarian sectors and highlights its multifaceted and diversified dedication to the welfare and prosperity of the underprivileged.