Assessment of the Private Health Care Sector in Morocco

The Government of Morocco (GOM) can and should encourage the private sector to offer comprehensive and high-quality health care to the growing segment of the Moroccan population that can afford to pay for it—health care that meets recognized standards and that includes preventive care, family planning (FP), and maternal and child health (MCH) services. This document offers a strategy for the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) to assist the Ministry of Health (MOH) in meeting the challenge of providing such care. Five principal strategies are proposed in the document, all interlinked and all supporting the concept of the private general practitioner (GP) as a family doctor who provides comprehensive, high-quality health services including reproductive care, FP, child health care, and preventive services.

• The five strategies are as follows:
• Training and capacity building for private doctors
• Institutional and organizational strengthening for public-private collaboration
• Expansion of social marketing
• Demand generation and client information materials
• Policy and financing reform