Casablanca – The Connected Mobile Medical Unit Program – Mohammed V Foundation for Solidarity adopts a new qualitative approach aimed at integrating face-to-face general medicine consultations and remote specialized medicine consultations, to bring medical services closer to citizens, the Program’s Coordinator, Nouredine Ratbi, said Tuesday in Casablanca.
This program will contribute to improving access of rural populations to high-quality medical services, Ratbi told the press on the occasion of the launch by His Majesty King Mohammed VI of the 2nd stage of the Connected Mobile Medical Unit program – Mohammed V Foundation for Solidarity.
Up to March 25, the fifty connected mobile medical units deployed as part of the first stage had provided around 120,000 medical services, including more than 96,000 face-to-face general medicine consultations, around 12,000 remote specialized consultations and more than 7,000 nursing clinical examinations.
Each connected mobile medical unit comprises a medical block c
onsisting of two multi-purpose consultation and treatment cubicles, equipped with basic medical instruments, medical furniture, connectivity systems and a full range of latest-generation biomedical equipment, which serve as work tools for remote consultations.
A partnership between the Mohammed V Foundation for Solidarity, the Ministry of Health and Social Protection and the service provider MEDIOT Technology, the first stage of this pilot program, launched by the Sovereign on October 28, 2023, provides for deploying 50 connected mobile medical units in 34 provinces, across nine regions of the Kingdom. The second stage involves the deployment of fifty new connected mobile medical units.
Source: Agence Marocaine De Presse