Dying while waiting for a blood bag in Essaouira

Latifa Isfaoun, aged 31 and a mother of four, passed away in the maternity ward of the Sidi Mohammed Ben Abdellah Provincial Hospital in Essaouira following a haemorrhage. She died while waiting for blood bags from Marrakech.The small quantity available at the Provincial Hospital could not be used given the victim's condition.However, Latifa Isfaoun was not the only patient to suffer the consequences of a most lamentable health policy. In addition to its existence on the margins of the regional health map's concerns, Essaouira still lacks a blood transfusion centre capable of meeting the daily needs of a population of 400,000 inhabitants. An unbearable situation likely to negatively impact blood donors in Essaouira, which must imperatively store its collection at the Marrakech blood transfusion centre. The latter subsequently proceeds to transport certain quantities to blood banks as we…