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His Majesty King Mohammed VI launched, at Tabriquet district, the building works of the Community Medical Center-Mohammed V Foundation for Solidarity for an amount of 67 million dirhams.

Meant to reinforce health care services in the city of Sale, this solidarity-based project stems from the sovereign's will to make the right of access to health services one of the major pillars for bolstering citizenship and his keenness to promote the health offer by providing quality community-based medical services that meet the citizens' needs. The center is in line with efforts by the monarch to improve access by the poor to basic health care, speed up surgeries in medical emergencies and ensure periodic and regular monitoring for patients requiring specialized consultations. Similar to those inaugurated by the sovereign in Rabat and Casablanca (on 11 and 20 May respectively), built in Temara and Tangier, or under construction in the new city of Errahma in Casablanca, the future center comes under a program led by the Foundation and aimed at supporting the national medical sector by reinforcing the existing medical care, setting up community health services that are accessible to populations and integrating a complementary social approach in patient support mechanisms.

The center, an intermediary facility between the network of basic health care establishments (level 1 and 2) and the hospital network, will benefit 300,000 inhabitants, ensure complementarity between the region's health services, relieve the pressure on hospitals and spare patients life-threatening long travels. The new center will be built over a surface area of 9,000 m2 and will have better accessibility thanks to Rabat-Sale tram route 1. It will include a community medical emergencies department (crash, examination, care, observation and plaster rooms), a department for external specialized consultations, a medical-technical department with two operating rooms (one for general surgery and another for c-section), and a department for mother-child health housing a technical unit for delivery (4 birth rooms) and rooms for checkups, ultrasound and newborn care. It will comprise also a unit for primary health care (consultation, care, vaccination and maternal and child health / family planning rooms), an orthopedic rehabilitation unit, a dental care unit, a medical imaging unit, a medical analysis laboratory, a sterilization unit and another for hospitalization (14 double rooms), a pharmacy and a morgue.

Fruit of a partnership between the Mohammed V Foundation for Solidarity, the Health Ministry and the Rabat-Sale-Kenitra Regional Council, the project will span two years.