2024-07-11 18:55:16
This is how, in the province of Safi, the Initiative, as part of its 3rd Phase, has fully committed to alleviating the suffering of kidney failure patients, by constantly ensuring that they have better access to quality health care, to eliminate waiting lists and to reduce the pressure on other health structures, by setting up ultramodern hemodialysis centers, even in rural areas, while equipping them with the latest generation of medical equipment.
One of the striking illustrations of this unwavering commitment of the INDH in favor of this category of patients is the Had Hrrara hemodialysis center registered within the framework of the program “Support for people in precarious situations” and whose management has been entrusted to the Association for Support to Patients with Renal Failure in Safi (ASMIR).
With a total cost of 5.60 million DH financed entirely by the Initiative, this project is divided into construction, equipment, and management and supervision, while the territorial municipality of Hrrara was responsible for offering the land lot and bearing the costs of connecting this health structure to the water and electricity networks.
As for the Provincial Health Delegation of Safi, it has undertaken to provide this Center with the necessary medical and paramedical staff, to provide this health structure with the necessary medicines and medical tools, and to ensure the monitoring and supervision of the association responsible for the management of this Center.
This Center, which opened its doors in August 2023, includes several outbuildings, including a waiting area, a treatment room, an emergency room, a bathroom, a pharmacy, administrative outbuildings, rooms dedicated to nursing staff, a kitchen, and a warehouse, among others.
According to data from the Social Action Division (DAS) of the province of Safi, during the period 2019-2023, the construction, development, equipment and management of three hemodialysis centers were carried out within the framework of the National Initiative for Human Development in the commune of Safi, more precisely at the Mohammed V Hospital, and in the territorial communes of Hrrara and Jamaa Shaim.
These projects required the mobilization of a total budget of around 14.47 million DH, including 12.38 million DH at the expense of the Initiative, devoted to carrying out technical and architectural studies and construction, development and equipment work.
An amount of two million DH was allocated by certain benefactors to contribute to the equipment of these Centers, the same source added.
In a statement to MAP, Abderrahim Habbaba, Head of the Social Action Division (DAS) under the prefecture of the province of Safi, recalled that the Had Hrrara Hemodialysis Center which was programmed by the Provincial Committee for Human Development (CPDH) aims to provide assistance and bring medical care closer to this social category from disadvantaged backgrounds in rural areas and above all, to wipe out waiting lists, particularly during the period linked to the Covid-19 health crisis.
“This type of Center has made it possible to address several difficulties while allowing patients to benefit from their hemodialysis sessions free of charge,” he said.
In a similar statement, Rachid Aboussibaa, president of ASMIR praised the importance of this Center created within the framework of the INDH, recalling that during the period of Covid-19, the problem of patients’ travel to seek treatment in Safi became more pressing, hence the initiative of the provincial authorities to create new hemodialysis centers in certain municipalities of the province, with the aim of alleviating the suffering of kidney failure patients.
It is in this sense that a Center was created in 2021 in the commune of Jamaa Shaim and the launch in 2023 of the Had Hrrara hemodialysis Center, while another Center is under construction in Sebt Guezzoula, he continued, noting that this Center has a capacity of 19 beds (each bed can accommodate up to 5 patients at a rate of 5 sessions per week).
The number of patients benefiting from the medical services of this Center currently stands at 12, while this health structure is equipped with the latest hemodialysis equipment, he added, expressing the great satisfaction of patients with the medical services offered by this Center.
In conclusion, he expressed the wish to see this type of initiative multiply in several other cities of the Kingdom given the importance of these Centers in terms of medical coverage and improving the quality of care provided to patients.
2024-07-11 18:55:16