Rabat Children's Hospital reorganisation project: The Ibn Sina CHU management defends the reform

Following the publication, on Monday 18 June 2012, of an article entitled "Between representativeness and despotism: Skills flouted at the Rabat Children's Hospital", we received from the management of the Ibn Sina CHU clarifications signed by Dr Mohammed Cherkaoui, head of the communication and media relations department, the full text of which is as follows:"Why is the reorganisation of the Rabat Children's Hospital necessary? At the time of its creation, this establishment was the only paediatric hospital in the Kingdom and had to meet a demand for care that was centred on infectious pathologies and malnutrition with a distribution of beds by specialty adapted to the child health challenges of that time. Since then, the organisation has not evolved outside of the creation of certain services such as paediatric oncology. The evolution that the country has experienced in terms of demog…