فاس نيوز ميديا جريدة الكترونية جهوية تعنى بشؤون و أخبار جهة فاس مكناس – متجددة على مدار الساعة
The Regional Office of the National Health Union, affiliated with the Moroccan Labor Union (UMT) in the Rabat-Salé-Kénitra region, plans to hold a warning protest on Wednesday, July 9, 2025, at 11:00 AM in front of the Directorate of the Ibn Sina University Hospital Center in Rabat. The protest aims to denounce what the union describes as a “serious deterioration in health services and disregard for major reform projects.”
In a strongly worded statement, the regional union office confirmed that the general situation in the hospital institutions affiliated with the center is worsening rapidly. It pointed to signs of “decline” marking the daily reality of hospitals in Rabat, Salé, and Temara, including the Moulay Youssef Regional Hospital and nearby provincial hospitals.
The union held the hospital administration responsible for “gross mismanagement” due to “escalating daily dysfunctions” that negatively affect patient safety and the working conditions of healthcare staff.
The statement highlighted several structural problems and “increasing daily irregularities,” including chaos in emergency departments, severe shortages of medical equipment and reagents, long waiting times for treatment and hospitalization, disorganized service delivery to citizens, deterioration in intensive care services, and the shutdown of vital devices such as CT scanners for more than a month and a half.
It also warned that the transfer of some medical departments to other hospitals was done “without respecting technical standards,” referring to the conversion of the neonatal pediatrics department at Moulay Youssef Hospital into an intensive care unit. According to the statement, this has caused a paralysis of health services and an “overcrowding crisis” in hospitals in Salé and Temara.
In light of this situation, the regional office called for fact-finding committees from the Supreme Audit Institution and the Ministry of Health and Social Protection to investigate the “structural flaws and lack of governance” within the hospital center.
The statement also condemned what it described as direct targeting of local union members through the “arbitrary transfer” of two of them to other hospitals, considering this an attempt to “silence voices and suppress serious union work.”
The union further criticized recent promotional campaigns launched by the hospital administration as mere “attempts to whitewash the image and cover up the dire reality,” affirming that the warning protest represents “the first step in an open struggle” aimed at urging the authorities to intervene urgently and effectively to save what can be saved in the region’s healthcare system.
