Physical medicine asserts itself in Fès

This event, scheduled for April 10 at the Faculty of Medicine and Pharmacy of Fès, will bring together eminent Moroccan professors specialising in disability, a French expert in Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine, as well as a team of physiotherapists, speech therapists, and orthoprosthetists from the University Hospital (CHU), and from the private and public sectors of the Fès-Boulemane region.

For Prof. Hajjioui Abderrazak, of the Organising Committee, the objective of this day is to make "Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine" known as a medical discipline intended for disability in all its components, whatever its origin. "This Day has as its main objective to reposition the fields of competence of PRM for the different pathological categories (neurological, rheumatological, paediatric traumatological... etc.) in order to ensure their rehabilitation and accompany their active reintegration into society," he adds. PRM remains, in fact, a medical specialty little known in Morocco, knowing that patients are not lacking. At the national level, 1,530,000 disabled people (5.12%) require care in PRM, more than a quarter of these patients suffer from a motor disability (27%), often acquired (78%), and the number of PRM doctors per 1000 inhabitants remains insufficient, with the existence of about fifty PRM specialists in Morocco. At the level of the Fès-Boulemane region, which has 1,573,055 inhabitants (in 2004), 80,000 disabled people require care in PRM. "This region has three PRM doctors, one assistant professor, one specialist in the public sector, and one specialist in the private sector. The Provincial Hospital Centre has about ten hospitalisation beds (level II) which remain very insufficient to meet the needs of patients," explains Prof. Hajjioui Abderrazak.

Provider / Source : Le Matin