Meknes Prefecture: Appointment Delays at Mohammed V Provincial Hospital Prompt Mobilization by Fez-Meknes Territorial Health Group

FES NEWS MEDIA – PREFECTURE OF MEKNES: Patients and citizens seeking care at Mohammed V Provincial Hospital in the Prefecture of Meknes during October 2026 are facing field constraints linked to heavy pressure on emergency services and extended waiting times for specialized medical consultations, radiology imaging, and laboratory diagnostics, driven by the wide geographic catchment area served by this referral hospital across urban and rural communes of the Prefecture of Meknes and neighboring provinces.

Local professional and civic sources in Meknes indicated that staffing shortages affecting medical specialists, nurses, and health technicians in several vital departments—most notably intensive care and anesthesiology, cardiology, and general surgery—compound the daily workload on on-call healthcare teams and lengthen outpatient appointment schedules, prompting civil society and labor representatives to call for urgent reinforcement of human resources and biomedical equipment.

Fez-Meknes Territorial Health Group Strategy to Shorten Hospital Waiting Times

In response to these field expectations, regional health authorities—operating within the newly established framework of the Fez-Meknes Territorial Health Group (GST)—are working to restructure patient care pathways and balance the deployment of medical and technical personnel across provincial, regional, and university hospital centers, alongside digitalizing medical appointment scheduling and upgrading primary healthcare centers across the Prefecture of Meknes to ease direct pressure on Mohammed V Hospital.

Residents of the Prefecture of Meknes look forward to seeing the Territorial Health Group’s organizational reforms translate into immediate improvements inside reception, emergency, and specialist consultation units, while the right of reply and clarification remains fully open to the administration of Mohammed V Provincial Hospital and the Provincial Delegation of Health and Social Protection in Meknes to share updated data on ongoing upgrading programs.