H.M. the King inaugurates the hospital for mental health and psychiatric diseases of the “Mohammed VI” University Hospital Centre of Oujda

With a total area of 7,500 m², the new hospital establishment, with a capacity of 108 beds, includes services for the treatment of psychotic and neurotic diseases, isolation, emergency, and consultation services, an administrative block, and a social activity and occupational therapy room. It also includes child psychiatry, geronto-psychiatry, psycho-physiology, and addiction services, as well as a training centre for doctors and nurses. In addition to its primary vocation of care, the Mohammed VI Psychiatry Hospital will thus ensure training and continuing education missions, just as it will work in favour of the social reintegration of patients. Still within the framework of the promotion of mental health, a new national strategy in the matter has been put in place and is articulated around five main axes, namely the strengthening of the supply of care, the development of medical…