Morocco and Israel are expanding their partnership to the health sector. The Moroccan Minister of Health, Khalid Aït Taleb and Ms. Yardena Ovadia, CEO and co-founder of the Israeli group IMS Ovadia Group, signed a memorandum of understanding, this Thursday, June 30 in Rabat.
The text concerns the construction of hospitals in the kingdom, with a financial participation of the Israeli part in the project, estimated at 5 billion dirhams, indicates the Moroccan Ministry of Health in a press releasepublished on its website.
The first phase of this investment program includes the construction of five large hospitals with a bed capacity of approximately 1,000 beds in the regions of Dakhla-Oued Eddahab, Fez-Meknes, Draa-Tafilalet, Oriental and Marrakech-Safi .
The Israeli group has a presence in Equatorial Guinea where it has, since 2001, built and managed hospitals in the capital, Malabo, and Mongomo, the birthplace of the country’s current president, Teodor Obiang Nguema.
Since the resumption of their diplomatic relations on December 10, 2020, Morocco and Israel have concluded partnership agreements relating in particular to trade, military cooperation and higher education.