At Ibn Al-Khatib Hospital in Fez, known to the residents as “Kokar”, women who had just given birth did not find anything but the ground for their bedding and sleeping next to the sucklings until they went out towards their homes.
At a time when mothers are supposed to go to their beds inside the rooms that have care and monitoring equipment, they leave those who have just exited the rooms designated for delivery with their newborns to one of the corners of the rooms or in the corridors using mattresses and covers brought by parents and relatives.
“One of the nurses almost trampled my baby on the ground without seeing him,” says one of the women, expressing her deep dissatisfaction with this humiliating position. Warm for me and my newborn son.
A nurse working in the hospital revealed to Hespress that the obstetrics and gynecology ward includes 5 rooms in which there is not a single vacant bed.
Another woman returns and declares to Hespress: “My daughter came to her leg like a cut and they were dragged into it,” explaining that many visitors to Kokar Hospital and its patients had previously seen a woman giving birth in one of the corridors, in front of the department door, or in a taxi.
The medical staff inside the hospital, in turn, expressed their deep dissatisfaction, through the Hespress electronic newspaper, about the imbalances accompanying overcrowding, stressing the absence of medical equipment and equipment and the working conditions, which they considered “not conducive to good giving,” and according to identical statements drawn: “Even sterile gloves do not exist, And trainees and trainees are asked to bring it with them, which makes mothers and newborns vulnerable to sepsis and infection at a time when only two midwives and a few trainees deliver 6 or 7 women at the same time.”