Morocco: Ministry of Health, UNHCR join forces to increase refugees' access to health care and social protection

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Nov 14, 2022

Morocco: Ministry of Health, UNHCR join forces to increase refugees' access to health care and social protection


Rabat — A framework partnership agreement aimed at promoting refugees' access to health and social protection was signed, Monday in Rabat, between the Ministry of Health and Social Protection and the United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR) in Morocco.

Inked by the Minister of Health and Social Protection, Khalid Ait Taleb, and the UNHCR representative in Rabat, François Reybet-Degat, the agreement is part of the effort to support the national immigration and asylum policy, initiated following the High Instructions of HM King Mohammed VI in September 2013, the objective being to promote refugees' access to health care and the social protection system.

The agreement is meant to set up joint actions to support access for refugees and asylum seekers to basic health services as well as to second and third level services for the most specialized care. It also provides for facilitating the care of refugees by the national social protection system and their access to university hospitals (CHU).

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