May 2023

He notably indicated that the government has launched three fundamental reforms aimed at improving the social sectors of health, higher education and national education and primary education.

In a speech on the occasion of the May 1, 2023 holiday, Mr. Sekkouri recalled that an agreement was signed at the level of the health sector to carry out a real reform aimed at the rehabilitation of the national health system, in harmony with the objectives of the great royal project of social protection.

The Minister noted that it had been agreed to improve the status of doctors with the modification of the index grid for doctors, pharmacists and dentists by granting the personnel concerned the index 509, a measure applied over two years at the rate of 50 % every year.

Mr. Sekkouri added that the pace of promotion of nurses and health technicians will be accelerated, noting that a decree has been issued to this effect, and that the sums due to the persons concerned will be paid as soon as the ministry receives the financial funds. allocated for promotion.

He added that the value of the compensation for professional risks for the benefit of administrative and technical staff will be increased to 1,400 dirhams gross per month, specifying that this increase has been automatically disbursed since January 2023.

In addition, there was talk of strengthening the Hassan II Foundation for the promotion of social works for the benefit of health sector personnel, recalled the Minister, noting that a new cycle of social dialogue for this sector was launched in March to consider the outstanding points.

At the level of the higher education sector, Mr. Sekkouri pointed out that the agreement linked to this sector concerns approximately 18,000 beneficiaries, explaining that it is a reform which is divided into three main axes, the first relating to the strengthening of governance mechanisms and the motivation of teacher-researchers through a new specific system that enshrines merit and competence.

Secondly, it involves the initiation of a program to accelerate the higher education system, scientific research and innovation by launching a global educational reform from the start of the 2023-2024 school year, in addition to the opening of training branches compatible with the priorities of the productive sectors and the specificity of the territorial spaces.

As part of the application of this agreement, the Minister noted, the Department of Higher Education, Scientific Research and Innovation, following a participatory approach, has developed a new statute for the body of teacher-researchers , in recognition of the continuous efforts made by this category of civil servants to train young people and prepare for the next generation, all with the aim of the ministry to strengthen the attractiveness of the teaching profession by attracting the best researchers, whether nationally or internationally.

The minister pointed out that the new status includes unprecedented requirements concerning the improvement of the financial situation of professor-researchers and their motivation to do more in various fields of teaching, supervision and research.

In this context, Mr. Sekkouri cited the raising of the promotion quota to 40% of professor-researchers who meet the required conditions, so that they benefit from attractive career paths that stimulate genius and creativity in various fields of education, research and mentoring.

He indicated that a new grade will be created for higher education faculty in order to strengthen the attractiveness of the teaching profession, motivate its practitioners, and increase the statutory remuneration granted to teacher-researchers by 3,000 dirhams, to be paid in 3 instalments from January 31, 2023.

The minister also mentioned the openness to Moroccans around the world by allowing them to join, through a competition, higher education, a measure, he said, which aims to attract researchers from the interior. and outside Morocco and to invest in the expertise and experience they have accumulated throughout their professional career.

Mr. Sekkouri considered that this new status is an effective tool to strengthen the skills of human capital working in Moroccan universities and attract world-class researchers capable of developing the university system and harmonizing it with international standards and best practices. .

With regard to the agreement in the national education and primary education sector, the Minister stressed that it concerns the principles governing the status of civil servants in the sector, noting that these are 9 principles aimed at preserving the achievements and the current frameworks, creating new frameworks, unifying the professional process of all the frameworks and setting up a new pedagogical engineering which ensures integration and harmony, as well as equal opportunities civil servants and the promotion of their professional and social situation, while defining the process for implementing the agreement and the commitments of the stakeholders.

The official indicated that the agreement also provides for financial compensation to motivate the teaching staff of the distinguished educational establishments up to 10,000 dirhams net per year, which is equivalent to 833 dirhams net per month, adding that a grade of of Excellence will be created for the benefit of executives whose career path ends at the first rung of scale 11, a grade which comes into force from 1 January 2024. Exceptionally, those who will retire in 2023 will be promoted to title of the same year 2023.

With regard to additional remuneration, Mr. Sekkouri noted that the task of supervision, responsibility, excellence and fairness towards certain categories was taken into account in the disbursement, adding that it will also be granted inspectors of different specializations, educational administration executives, associate teachers, guidance executives, educational planning executives, financial management executives, technical assistants and administrative assistants.

In this wake, the Minister indicated that the total financial cost of the implementation of the January 14, 2023 agreement for the next four years amounts to approximately 5 billion dirhams, in addition to additional expenses for each year, which would bring the total cost to 6 billion dirhams.

The minister added that the cycles of sectoral social dialogue are continuing between the ministry and the education unions who signed the minutes of the agreement of January 14, 2023, with a view to continuing the implementation of the sheet. 2022-2026 roadmap, particularly with regard to enhancing the roles of women and men in education, by improving their professional and social conditions and by offering them appropriate conditions, as well as to all personnel in the education sector. national education.

In addition to these reforms, the minister pointed out that the government is working to improve salaries and working conditions for large categories of civil servants who were wronged, explaining that scale 7 has been abolished for administrative and technical assistants , while the quota for promotion in this grade is increased to 36% in the civil service, in addition to the creation of paid paternity leave of 15 days in the civil service.

On the other hand, he informed that a list of illnesses giving right to medium-term sick leave has been fixed, in addition to raising the value of the family allowance for the fourth, fifth and sixth children to 100 dirhams per month for the benefit of civil servants, military personnel, employees of the State, municipalities and public institutions.

Among the sick are 19 women and 13 men, including nine children.

The operational headquarters of the Krasnodar Territory reports that the youngest patient is a year old, the eldest is 83 years old.

In Sochi, 11 cases were identified, in Krasnodar – nine, in Novorossiysk – three, in Kalinisky and Kanevsky districts – two each, in Armavir, Kurganinsky, Novopokrovsky, Tbilisi, Tikhoretsky districts – one each.

In total, 1,108,135 residents of Kuban applied to medical organizations in the region with suspected coronavirus.

Since the beginning of the pandemic, 361,618 cases of COVID-19 have been confirmed in the Krasnodar Territory. 349,733 people have already been discharged with recovery. 11,191 patients might not be saved.

To date, 501 people are on outpatient treatment with COVID-19, 193 patients are in hospitals, the Ministry of Health of the Krasnodar Territory reported.