Casablanca - King Mohammed VI and Sheikh Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi and deputy supreme commander of the UAE Armed Forces, inaugurated on Tuesday the Sheikh Khalifa Bin Zayed Al Nahyan Hospital of Casablanca.
Fruit of a strategic partnership between Morocco and the UAE, the facility, which will provide health care, training and research, will improve access to good health services, a requisite for achieving a comprehensive human development.
The hospital, built at the Hay Hassani district, seeks to become a major actor of medical research and training for health staff thanks notably to a partnership with the Mohammed VI University for Health Science which is adjacent to it.
The new facility takes into consideration health care need of Moroccans and west African populations and offers an adjustable medical care.
Stretching over 6.5 hectares and with a 205-bed capacity, the hospital includes 46 consulting rooms, 85 diagnosis and treatment rooms and 8 operating rooms. It comprises four specialties namely oncology, cardiology, emergencies and maternity-pediatrics.
The facility includes also a modern and integrated laboratory with state-of-the-art technology for medical tests and a radiology ward with modern imaging equipment.
The hospital has a nuclear medicine department, a department of functional consultations and tests, an endoscopy ward, and eight multi-purpose operating rooms.
The new facility has also a pain center and a check-up center which will offer medical checkups that are appropriate to the patient's age, heredity, lifestyle and medical history.
After these activities, the sovereign took his leave of his distinguished guest, HH Sheikh Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan.
MWN with MAP
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