King Mohammed VI dedicates heart didease hospital for children in Casablanca
Morocco, Health, 11/9/2004

King Mohammed VI of Morocco dedicated in Casablanca Monday a heart disease hospital for children, set up by the association "Bonnes ceuvres du Coeur" in favor of indigent children suffering from heart related diseases. The 32.6 million DH (around 3.2 million Euro) project ambitions to perform 400 heart surgeries and 8,000 medical consultations annually.

The 4-storey hospital has 25 beds, 89 reanimation beds, 2 operation blocs, 4 consultation offices. The hospital will also provide angiography (an X-ray examination of the blood vessels or chambers of the heart), scanner, pharmacy, reanimation, perfusion, anesthetics services.

All the staff has benefited from training sessions in France, and others will be held by French visiting experts.

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