Benguerir, a city in Rehamna Province in central Morocco, is preparing to welcome a new state-of-the-art provincial hospital.
With a total investment of MAD 470 million ($44.2 million), the central Moroccan city’s new health center will have a total capacity of 120 beds – 40 beds for the maternity and neonatology department, 30 for general medicine, 30 for surgery purposes, 10 in the pediatrics department, and 10 intensive care beds.
The hospital will be constructed on three levels over a total area of six hectares on property held by the OCP Group at the southern exit of Benguerir on National Road 9 heading to Marrakech.
Health Minister Khalid Ait Taleb signed a partnership agreement for the construction of this new Provincial Hospital Center in June of last year, with the aim of relieving pressure on current health institutions in Rehamna Province.
Under the agreement, provincial authorities pledged to offer land that meets urban planning criteria and would be made available to the Ministry of Health for the implementation of this project.
Also participating in the conception and implementation of the project are the municipality of Benguerir, the phosphate giant OCP Group, the Company of Planning and Green Development (SADV), and Mohammed VI Polytechnic University (UM6P).
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Minister Ait Taleb headed a delegation to Bengurerir last year to inspect the site of the city’s soon-to-be built provincial hospital center.
Prior to that visit, the Health Minister had inaugurated a Reproductive Health Reference Center (CRSR) in the same city. The center, whose construction required a MAD 2 million ($211,988) budget, is meant to increase local populations’ access to adequate reproductive healthcare, helping to reduce morbidity and mortality in Rehamna Province.
SOURCE: Morocco news