most rigourous guarantees necessary for their success and by maintaining their
confidentiality at the same time.
330. The Decree n° 2003-2070 of 6th October 2003 established the administrative
and financial organization of the regional hospitals as well as their mode of
operation. This Decree aims essentially at promoting the equality of health
benefits for the patients and this by concretizing their right to health benefits
under the best possible conditions.
331. To sanction the right of Man to good health, the efforts of the State had been
focused notably on two essential areas:
• The extension of the cover by investing in infrastructure on the basis of a
four level pyramid: the grassroots health centres, the constituency
hospitals of the main cities of the localities, the regional hospitals of hte
governorates and the major cities and the university hospitals within the
university centres around the Faculties of Medicine;
•
The training of health professionals through the various Faculties of
Medicine (4), of Dental Medicine (1), of Pharmacy (1), Higher Schools of
Health Sciences and Techniques (4) and the professional schools of public
health (19). These various institutions provide high level training through
internship for all, and through the development of continuous training for
the Doctors and for the health professionals who benefit from training
adapted to the progress of medical science.
I- Development of certain health indicators
Health Indicator
Development of the number of
Doctors (private and public sectors)
Development of the number of high
level paramedical officers (public
sector)
Development of the number of beds
(public sector)
Number
of
grassroots
health
centres
Number of inhabitants per Doctor
(public and private)
Number
of
inhabitants
per
paramedical senior official
Number of inhabitants per bed
Number
of
inhabitants
per
grassroots health centre
Direct investment (public sector in
MD)
1995
2001
5965
8287
25470
28363
31534
15900
16400
17269
1777
2000
2067
1.500
1166
1011
357
318
284
500
500
504
5035
4800
479
60,5
76,6
73,1
332. At the level of the public sector, the hospitals had been developed to deal
with the needs of the population in terms of specialized basic curative care in the
regional hospitals. On the other hand, the university hospitals which are
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