Morocco probes health project with World Bank

Moroccan health minister, Mohamed Cheikh Biadillah, probed, in Rabat Wednesday, with a delegation of the World Bank (WB) a new project on micronutrients, funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.

The project aims at reinforcing strategies to fight nutritional defects by strengthening high consumption elements, the health ministry said in a release, underlining that the funds allocated by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation will be managed by the World Bank. The WB delegation,, examined other issues with the Moroccan official, including the program in relation with the financing and management of the health sector, the source went on.