COVID-19 patients in Morocco have denounced the conditions in public hospitals, reigniting nagging controversy over the underfunded health sector. Moroccan Health Minister Khalid Ait Taleb said that “considerable effort is made to care for patients”. Health spending accounts for around five percent of Morocco’s national budget, compared with the World Health Organization’s recommendation of 12 percent. Bouzid, the president of the Algerian oncology society, expressed hope that the lessons of the coronavirus pandemic might lead to change. “We must ‘take advantage’ of this crisis by revising our health system,” he said.

Source: The North Africa Journal April 10, 2020 13:07 UTC