The Sovereign launches the 2nd phase of the Connected Mobile Medical Units program – Mohammed V Foundation for Solidarity
Health: Morocco is betting on connected medicine to guarantee access to care for all. After a successful first stage, HM the King has just launched the 2nd phase of the Connected Mobile Medical Units program – Mohammed V Foundation for Solidarity. Diagnostic.
It is no longer necessary to go to the doctor, the latter comes directly to you thanks to telemedicine. Morocco today seems to be banking on connected mobile medical units to guarantee access to care for all and above all to fight against medical deserts, these regions or cities and sometimes even peripheral neighborhoods which experience a deficit in terms of human resources because few attractive. In this sense, two local projects which underline the firm royal desire to consolidate the national health offer and improve access to health care for the benefit of all have just been launched. In details, His Majesty King Mohammed VI proceeded, Tuesday in the Lissasfa district, at the Hay Hassani district prefecture (Casablanca), to the laying of the first stone of a local medical center – Mohammed V Foundation for Solidarity and the launch of the 2nd phase of the Connected Mobile Medical Units program – Mohammed V Foundation for Solidarity. These two projects denote the commitment of His Majesty the King to strengthen the national health offer, to improve medical services for the benefit of citizens, to consolidate the offer of local care and to promote access for populations, in particular those from rural areas, to quality basic health care and to ensure periodic and regular medical monitoring of people whose state of health requires specialized consultations. Concretely, the Connected Mobile Medical Units – Mohammed V Foundation for Solidarity program aims to improve access to medical services for rural populations and represents a new model of intervention that combines local care and telemedicine.
Pilot program
The result of a partnership between the Mohammed V Foundation for Solidarity, the Ministry of Health and Social Protection and the service company Mediot Technology, this pilot program consisted, in its first phase launched by the Sovereign on October 28, 2023, of by the deployment of 50 mobile medical units connected in 34 provinces and distributed between nine regions of the Kingdom. The second phase involves the deployment of fifty new connected mobile medical units. Each connected mobile medical unit includes a medical block made up of two multipurpose consultation and treatment boxes, equipped with basic medical instruments, medical furniture, connectivity system and a complete range of latest generation biomedical equipment which serves work tools for remote consultations. Operation is ensured by a dedicated team (a general practitioner, two nurses [ères] and an administrative framework) which supports face-to-face general medicine consultations, tele-expertise, outpatient care procedures and monitoring of public health programs. The use of tele-expertise is the responsibility of the general practitioner who, when a case requires advice or assistance with examinations, calls upon it, depending on the specialty required (gynecology-obstetrics, pediatrics, endocrinology, dermatology, ENT , cardiology, pulmonology and nephrology), to a specialist doctor who operates from a central telemedicine platform connected to all the connected mobile medical units. His Majesty the King, at the same time, followed a simulation of a tele-expertise provided by a general practitioner on site in liaison with specialist doctors at the central telemedicine platform located in Casablanca. The fifty connected mobile medical units, deployed as part of the first phase, were able, until March 25, to provide 119,532 medical services for the benefit of 104,041 people, 65% of whom were female. A total of 96,753 were the subject of consultations and general care and 11,989 cases required recourse to tele-expertise in the different specialties available.
The two projects launched denote the commitment of His Majesty the King to strengthen the national health offer and improve medical services for the benefit of citizens. (DR)
Remote consultations
The Connected Mobile Medical Units-Mohammed V Foundation for Solidarity program adopts a new qualitative approach aimed at integrating face-to-face general medicine consultations and remote specialized medicine consultations, with the aim of bringing medical services closer to citizens, affirmed, Tuesday in Casablanca, the coordinator of this program, Dr Nouredine Ratbi. In a statement to the press on the occasion of the launch by His Majesty King Mohammed VI of the 2nd phase of the Connected Mobile Medical Units program – Mohammed V Foundation for Solidarity, Mr. Ratbi indicated that this program will contribute to improving the access of rural populations to high-quality medical services.
The 50 connected mobile medical units, he specified, made it possible until March 25, in the first phase of their deployment, to provide around 120,000 medical services, including more than 96,000 face-to-face general medicine consultations, around 12,000 consultations remote specialists and more than 7,000 nursing clinical examinations.
Each connected mobile medical unit includes a medical block made up of two multipurpose consultation and treatment boxes, equipped with basic medical instruments, medical furniture, connectivity system and a complete range of latest generation biomedical equipment which serve as working tools for remote consultations.
The Connected Mobile Medical Units program aims to improve access to medical services for rural populations. (DR)
As a reminder, His Majesty King Mohammed VI chaired in October 2023, at the Royal Palace in Rabat, the signing ceremony of a partnership agreement between the Mohammed V Foundation for Solidarity, the Ministry of Health and Social Protection and the company Mediot Technology, relating to the deployment of a program of connected mobile medical units, intended to improve access to medical services for rural residents. This program, the agreement of which was signed by Khalid Ait Taleb, Minister of Health and Social Protection, Mohammed El Azami, coordinator and member of the board of directors of the Mohammed V Foundation for Solidarity, and Mohamed Ben Ouda, predict-general director of the company Mediot Technology, comes from the deep conviction of the Sovereign to make the right of access to health services one of the major pillars for the consolidation of citizenship and for the achievement of global and integrated human development (see box).
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Advanced technology
Reform. The Connected Mobile Medical Units program is part of the Royal project to reform the health system and generalize social protection and represents a new model of intervention that combines local care and telemedicine. This pilot program consists of the deployment of connected medical units in areas suffering from a deficit in access to health services. These units each include a general practitioner, two nurses and an administrative assistant. They are equipped with cutting-edge biomedical equipment enabling face-to-face medical consultations for general medicine and specialized teleconsultations via a connection with the central telemedicine platform, made up of specialists in gynecology-obstetrics, pediatrics, endocrinology, dermatology, ENT, cardiology and pulmonology. The implementation of the program was based, in a first phase of one year, on the deployment of fifty mobile medical units connected across the different regions of the Kingdom, and more precisely at the level of forty provinces. The choice of provinces was made on the basis of an analysis of health center positioning data at the provincial level. The first phase of the said program required the mobilization of twenty specialist doctors for the central telemedicine platform, fifty general practitioners, 100 nurses and 100 assistants, spread across the different provinces. A budget of 180 million dirhams will be committed to its implementation.
Technical sheet
Convention
His Majesty King Mohammed VI chaired in October 2023, at the Royal Palace in Rabat, the signing ceremony of a partnership agreement between the Mohammed V Foundation for Solidarity, the Ministry of Health and Social Protection and society. Mediot Technology, relating to the deployment of a connected mobile medical unit program.
Balance sheet
The 50 connected mobile medical units made it possible until March 25, in the first phase of their deployment, to provide around 120,000 medical services, including more than 96,000 face-to-face general medicine consultations, around 12,000 remote specialist consultations and more than 7,000 examinations. nursing clinics.
Equipment
Each connected mobile medical unit includes a medical block made up of two multipurpose consultation and treatment boxes, equipped with basic medical instruments, medical furniture, connectivity system and a complete range of latest generation biomedical equipment which serve as working tools for remote consultations.
