A mobile medical team travelled last Monday night to Taaraate, a very isolated mountainous locality falling under the commune of Agoudim, to save the lives of three infants suffering from bronchiolitis, it was learned on Wednesday from the provincial delegation of the Ministry of Health in Midelt.

A snow-clearing truck and an ambulance were deployed to facilitate the mission of the medical team, which travelled in difficult weather conditions (snowfall) and managed to be at the bedside of these infants, it was specified by the same source, ensuring that no case of death has been recorded due to the cold in the region for the moment.

In the same mountainous locality of Taaraate, the medical team also managed to perform a urinary catheterisation on a 70-year-old man presenting with acute urinary retention, as well as a uterine revision for a woman who gave birth at home during the night, said the provincial delegate of the Ministry of Health in Midelt, Hassan Bouziane. He specified that another medical team composed of a pulmonologist, a paediatrician, two general practitioners, and three nurses travelled to the locality of Massou (5 km from Taaraate), falling under the commune of Agoudim, after the last weather alert of last weekend. On this occasion, about 230 patients, suffering notably from hypothermia, acute bronchitis, or fever, benefited from medical and paramedical services.

A vast curative, preventive, and anticipatory medical campaign managed to reach the various isolated localities suffering from the harsh climate in the province of Midelt, said the local official, adding that this medical structure played a primary role in the care of a large number of patients from different rural mountainous areas of the region.

He recalled that the local preventive action plan, which brings together several stakeholders, draws up a map of threatened areas, mobilises logistical means to clear snow-covered roads and tracks, and schedules medical tours in the isolated Douars.

He also stressed that the local vigilance committee also granted particular attention to social institutions and schools in exposed areas, which were provided with batches of blankets and stocks of firewood.

According to the official, the provincial delegation of Midelt mobilised a large staff of its medical and paramedical personnel, 4 mobile medical units, and 13 ambulances, as well as a significant endowment of various medicines estimated at 100,000 DH.