Casablanca is the biggest city in
Morocco and the Maghreb region and the spiral cord of Moroccan economy;
it is the city where more than 3,500,000 people live, according to the
census of 2004.
The high population density of the city
makes it a very fertile place for the emergence and dissemination of
many social phenomena and also many.
A recent report prepared by the
delegation of the Ministry of Health in Casablanca showed that 65,000
cases of STDs (sexually transmitted diseases) were recorded in the city
in 2012, which makes 10 percent of these diseases at the national level.
67 percent of people affected by these diseases have ages ranging between 15 and 44 years.
96 cases of malaria were also identified.
This report which was presented before
the Casablanca prefecture Council also reported that 68,752 people were
diabetic, 46,770 people with hypertension, and 20,950 with mental health
problems, 3000 of whom are left freely roaming the city.
As to traffic accidents, the economic
capital of the country is ranked worst; 10,000 accidents are recorded in
2012, which caused 300 deaths and 15,000 wounded.
The report denounces the lack of
efficacy in the work of the delegation, especially with the remarkable
shortage in logistics (there is a glaring deficit of ambulances) and
human resources.
Another problem highlighted by the
report is that the medical supply cannot meet all the needs in the city,
a fact which is worsened by the lack of coordination between the
different public hospitals and the central University Hospital.
The statistics revealed by the report,
thus, clearly indicate the severity of the health situation in the city
of Casablanca, a situation that all participants in the meeting of the
Casablanca prefecture Council were asked to improve by all the means
possible.
The solutions cannot be found overnight
and sufficing the city with the diagnosis of the situation will never
solve the problem. Concerted efforts by government officials, members of
the city council of Casablanca, and health officials are badly needed
to spare the city and the country more problems.
