National child rights congress opens in Rabat

The 7th national congress on child rights opened in Rabat Thursday to debate topics related to child and mother medical care covering, ill-treated children and homeless

During the two-day congress, the Moroccan national children rights observatory will put forward an action plan for medical coverage to all Moroccan children.

Opening the congress, health minister, Abdelouahed El Fassi, said his department is currently studying reforms to the financing of medical services extended to children to improve coverage.

The question of child and mother medical coverage remains a priority for the government and the children right to medical care is essential for the implementation of the UN convention on children rights, he said.

The national congress on child rights, which was held for the first time on May 25, 1994, is meant to ponder on ways and strategies for the materialization of the international convention on children rights which Morocco ratified in June 1993.