Health sector crisis in Fes Meknes includes both public and private sectors amid lack of oversight

The health deterioration in the Fes Meknes region is not limited to the public sector, but also includes private clinics and hospitals, which despite being a profitable sector that has seen huge investments in recent years, remain outside the scope of effective oversight or at least away from any transparency in inspection and monitoring reports.

Professional sources confirmed to Fes News that private clinics have become run in a purely commercial logic, where the costs of services are increasingly rising without ensuring quality commensurate with prices, leaving patients between the hammer of lack of services in public hospitals and the anvil of exorbitant costs in the private sector.

Despite the rapid expansion of private clinics and the opening of many of them in various regions of the region, the lack of strict control over the quality of medical services and the prices of treatments raises serious concerns about the extent to which these clinics adhere to the necessary health standards, especially in light of increasing complaints about medical errors, weak monitoring, and suspicious practices in billing and treatment.

While private clinics are benefiting from the increasing number of patients due to the decline in services in public hospitals, the question remains: Where is the role of the authorities in imposing transparent and strict control over this sector? Will the competent authorities move to impose clear accountability mechanisms and guarantee the rights of patients to safe and fair health services?

Source : Fes News Media

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