- Health in Morocco
According to the United States government,
Morocco has inadequate numbers ofphysicians (0.5 per 1,000 people) and hospital beds (1.0 per 1,000 people) and poor access towater (82 percent of the population) andsanitation (75 percent of the population). The health care system includes 122 hospitals, 2,400 health centers, and 4 university clinics, but they are poorly maintained and lack adequate capacity to meet the demand for medical care. Only 24,000 beds are available for 6 million patients seeking care each year, including 3 million emergency cases. The health budget corresponds to 1.1 percent ofgross domestic product and 5.5 percent of the central government budget. [http://lcweb2.loc.gov/frd/cs/profiles/Morocco.pdf Morocco country profile] .Library of Congress Federal Research Division (May 2006). "This article incorporates text from this source, which is in thepublic domain ."]In 2001 the principal causes of
mortality in the urban population were circulatory system diseases (20.4 percent); perinatal diseases (9.3 percent);cancer (8.5 percent); endrocrinological, nutritional, andmetabolic disease s (7.6 percent); respiratory system diseases (6.9 percent); and infectious andparasitic disease s (4.7 percent). In 2004 the minister of health announced that the country had eradicated a variety of childhood diseases, specificallydiphtheria ,polio ,tetanus , andmalaria , but other diseases continue to pose challenges. Although still high at more than 40 deaths per 1,000 live births in 2006, the infantry mortality rate shows considerable improvement since 1981, when it was estimated at 91 deaths per 1,000 live births. According to estimates for 2001, approximately 0.1 percent of the population between the ages of 15 and 49 was infected withhuman immunodeficiency virus/acquired immune deficiency syndrome (HIV/AIDS).References
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