These projects aim to improve the conditions of access to health services, particularly for the most vulnerable people, as well as to improve the quality of health services for the benefit of the local population.
Among the priority areas of the INDH’s interventions is the improvement of maternal and child health within the framework of the fourth program “Improving human capital for rising generations”.
Thus, the INDH implemented, between the years 2020 and 2023, 11 projects costing 2,536,834.48 dirhams, for the acquisition of pre- and postnatal medical consultation and disease diagnosis equipment. linked to malnutrition and stunted growth, the construction of two maternity hospitals in the town of Assa and the organization of five medical caravans and awareness campaigns in the area of maternal and child health.
These projects, which target women of childbearing age, mothers and children, aim to improve maternal and child health and provide doctors with cutting-edge equipment to provide quality services to the population.
The provincial delegate of the Ministry of Health and Social Protection, Siham Laâmarti underlined the importance of the equipment made available to the Assa Provincial Hospital Center, in particular the maternal and child health service, for a budget of more of 258,000 dhs.
She stressed that the INDH provides great support to the health sector, through several projects, including the acquisition of a mobile maternal and child health unit, and the equipment of the maternity ward of the provincial hospital.
For his part, the head of the human capital impulse service for rising generations in the province of Assa Zag, underlined the importance of the interventions carried out by the INDH to support the health sector in the region, by financing numerous projects, including two for the benefit of the maternity ward of the regional hospital.
He noted that the objective of these projects is to promote maternal and child health and reduce maternal and infant mortality, as well as to bring health services closer to citizens and improve the quality of these services.