Former health minister slams the present policy and calls for radical change

Former health minister Abdelhamid Aberkane has slashed at the national healthcare system and penned it as “underdeveloped” in terms of legislation and services.

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• The minister also called for putting an end to the Labor and Social Security ministry’s hegemony on some Health ministry’s prerogatives. M Aberkane has declared “ There are many important decisions which are still pending including the la which forbids the holding of two functions simultaneously”
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• He expressed his astonishment to the fact that the relevant authorities didn’t react accordingly, adding that many surgeons and specialists are holding several activities simultaneously, challenging the laws in force.
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• Talking yesterday on the sidelines of a seminar on kidney failure, the former minister has noted “ how come that doctors, surgeons and other specialists are holding functions in different medical institutions in the morning and move to practice in private clinics in the evening?”
• M Aberkane staunchly criticised this situation as it encouraged doctors to take advantage of their functions to transfer ill people from public to private clinics to garner money out of these practices.
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• He called for the setting up of a new strategy in the field of communication that meets the standards applied in the developed countries. There should be precise information in order to draw up an efficient health program, he noted.
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• M Aberhkane has called on his successor Said Berkat to reactivate the law issued in 2003 which allows associations that operate in the health sector like the Blood Donors Association to associate them in solving the sector’s problems.
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