Japan donates Morocco $80,927 to purchase neuro-surgery equipment

Japan has donated the Hassan II foundation of the prevention and struggle against brain diseases a grant worth US$80,927.

The amount is destined to purchase neuro-surgery equipment for the emergency ward at the specialties hospital in Rabat.

The check was handed over to the foundation chairman at a ceremony here Thursday, in the presence of Japan's ambassador in Rabat Hiromi Sato.

This assistance is part of the Japanese non-reimbursable assistance program to small local projects. Japan has co-financed some 150 local projects, in the frame of this program. Other cooperation projects, that will mainly benefit the rural world, are planned.