By LeSiteinfo with MAP
The Ibn Rochd University Hospital Center in Casablanca now has a new emergency department. With cutting-edge equipment and technologies, this completely modernized service is intended to significantly improve the quality of patient care.
Covering an area of 11,500 m2, this service, which has been running at full capacity since last September, welcomes all patients residing in Casablanca or elsewhere and whose serious cases require urgent medical and surgical treatment.
In a statement to MAP, the director of the Ibn Rochd University Hospital, Moulay Hicham Afif indicated that this new emergency department has two main entrances facilitating access for patients, one opening onto Boulevard de Sebta for ambulances and the other on Boulevard Tarik Ibn Ziad for those who go there on foot.
Upon admission of each patient, a medical and paramedical team establishes an initial diagnosis before directing each case to the block intended for treatment according to its severity (red, orange and yellow), he specifies before Add that critical cases are immediately directed to the intensive care unit which has 23 beds and state-of-the-art equipment intended especially for people who have suffered a heart attack and stroke.
And note that only one person is authorized to accompany the patient, to avoid congestion in emergencies which have a reception room for relatives for this purpose.
He also indicates that this emergency department includes four operating theaters for the most delicate operations, in addition to a medical simulation room for the training of medical and paramedical teams, in addition to an SAMU service.
Other details, those provided by Pr. Mohamed Mouhaoui, specialist in resuscitation, anesthesia and emergency medicine at Ibn Rochd hospital, who indicated that this service has five units, namely a unit reserved for reception, the orientation and first consultations, another for resuscitation, the largest in Africa, as well as a third intended for medical coordination between all the hospital centers in the Casablanca-Settat region.
And this emergency doctor and anesthetist adds that the fourth unit is reserved for medical simulation for training in the field of emergencies and finally a fifth unit made up of operating theaters.
For his part, the head of the x-ray unit at this emergency department, Omar Kacimi, reported the existence of a medical imaging service in the emergency room, including two scanners and an MRI machine (imaging by magnetic resonance) which operate full time, with 300 cases on average per day.
According to statistics from the Ibn Rochd University Hospital in Casablanca, this brand new emergency department welcomed between September 7 and December 16, 2024 a total of 28,768 patients, or, on average, 290 people per day.
Thus, the new emergency department of the Ibn Rochd University Hospital strengthens the health infrastructure of the city of Casablanca which is preparing to host events of global scale. It also helps to fill the deficit observed in the city’s emergency services and to improve the quality of medical services offered to Casablanca residents.
