Established in 2002 by law 65.00 of the Moroccan Code relating to medical coverage, the Compulsory Health Insurance (AMO) is flourishing.
This social system, set up to cover the risks and health care costs of policyholders and their families, is moving up a gear, especially with the reform of the health system.
Only problem, the AMO ignores the rare diseases, still shunned by the financial aid of the State. These so-called orphan diseases, which affect nearly 1.5 million people worldwide, including several thousand in Morocco, continue to ravage not only the health of patients, but also their purses.
Among them, it is worth mentioning cystic fibrosis. Deadly, it destroys the respiratory and digestive tracts of the patient, often very young. Apart from civil society organizations and charitable souls who take care of these children whose life expectancy is limited to 8 years, few are those who know anything regarding it.
Albinism, in a country where high temperatures cause the mercury to rise several times a year, remains, according to many doctors interviewed, underdiagnosed because it is expensive.
Like these two illnesses, many others only benefit from financial and medicinal aid from the charitable body which is entirely dedicated to them, and from funds dedicated to medical research.
For the AMO to be able to cover even a tiny part of the care of these vulnerable people, would be a big step towards the construction of a real social State, pledge of the overhaul of the Health system, dictated by the New Development Model.
