Mohammed Alamou - Lawyer

Where others spoke from personal stories, Mohammed speaks from a legal standpoint. His perspective spans the medical system and government as a whole and the intricacies many in the general Rabat population do not think or know about. He believes that the root causes of the healthcare inaccessibility issue include budget, public policy, education, and religion.

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"My stand on doctors is not a personal problem. I don’t have anything against them. Of course, you need to trust the doctors as a person. But you also need to distrust the environment where they are in." -Mohammed

"In Morocco, this is what we call traditional healing or medicine, which is widely practiced. They are undocumented, illegal, like herbists and they heal with traditional treatment. And a lot of people believe in it because of illiteracy." -Mohammed

"From a legal point of view those people that did the jbiras should be punished. Under criminal law, you are impersonating a doctor, you are practicing a non-declared profession, and lastly he has to recompensate everything that the patient has undergone." -Mohammed

"It has to do with the budget. It has to do with the public policies applied by the state and the government. What are the priorities of the state? It has to do of course with education. It has to do with the cultural side. With illiteracy and religion." -Mohammed

"In Morocco, under the constitution, healthcare is a legal right. For free. Not everyone knows that they have a right to free health care because of illiteracy but it’s there." -Mohammed

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This interview was conducted with the help of a translator.