The journalist’s of the newspaper La Marea, Eduardo Muriel, visit us in Morocco to do a report about the right to health in the region of Taza-Al Hoceima-Taounate, with the support of DevReporter (Network of journalists and professionals communication for development and the financial contribution of the European Union) and the Federation of NGOs of Catalonia. He went to the capital of the country, Rabat, to interview the representatives of the Collective for the Right to Health Morocco, a NGO platform fighting for the promotion of free, universal and equal access to health as a fundamental human right and a strategic partner for NOVACT in the country.
In parallel to this visit, NOVACT and the Collective for the Right to Health Morocco, with the support of the Moroccan consulting EFA Prosperity and the Institute for Global Health of Barcelona, organized 12 participatory workshops in the region of Taza-Al Hoceima-Taouanate (TAT) to improve the access to the human right to health in the country. These workshops, which were attended by about 500 participants during Novembre, aim to elaborate a mapping and a diagnostique of the deficits in the health system of the TAT region.
Community Health
These workshops, implemented within the framework of the “Community Health: Mobilizing health assets in Morocco to improve the security of the Right to Health” action, funded by the Spanish Agency for International Cooperation for Development (AECID), were held during the weekends 20,21 and 27,28,29 and 22 November. In February 2016, a presentation session of the results of the workshops will be held with the local civil society and local and regional authorities (Regional Health Directorate, Regional Human Rights Council, municipalities, etc.).
Morocco occupies the 129 place of the Humain Development Index that, each year, produces the United Nations Development Program, given the high percentage of illiterate population and limited access to health. Maternal mortality, one hundred times over than in Spain, remains a scourge that affects particularly rural areas. The region of Taza-Al Hoceima-Taounate (TAT) is one of the most rural, remote and deprived the country and has an illiteracy rate of about 55% (HCP). It also has very few hospitals and health centers considering the large population (8188 inhabitants per health facility).
