Earthquake in Morocco: Mohamed VI speaks with the wounded and doctors and donates blood during his visit to the Marrakech hospital

He king Mohamed VI of Morocco He chatted with several injured people and with health personnel during his visit to the Hospital Center of Marrakeshwhere he also donated blood for the victims of the earthquake that hit the southern mountains of that Moroccan city last Friday.

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According to public television Al Oulawhich broadcast the images of the royal visit, the monarch was accompanied by the ministers of the Interior and Health, Abdeluafu Laftit and Khalid Ait Taleband visited two units of the hospital, the resuscitation unit and the recovery unit, where the status of the injured was reported.

In the images, you can see Mohamed VI speaking with six patients, men and women, with a teenager and with the mother of an injured child, as well as with several health professionals. Later, he appears donating blood and leaving the hospital, in whose lobby he greeted a group of Moroccans who cheered him.

As reported by the public televisionin the different health centers in the region of Marrakesh 2,171 injured people are hospitalized, of which 484 are in serious condition. The latest official toll of earthquake victims counts 2,901 dead and 5,530 injured.

The monarch arrived at the center by car around 4:30 p.m. local time (GMT+1) accompanied by a long procession of official vehicles and security, he was inside the hospital for about 45 minutes and He also left by carin a visit whose coverage was restricted to Moroccan public media.

This is the second appearance of Mohamed VI after the earthquake, after the working meeting that he chaired last Saturday with civil and military officials in which he ordered the deployment of an emergency program to care for the victims and rehabilitate the damaged buildings, and decreed three days of official mourning.

After the earthquake, which occurred on Friday night and had a magnitude of 7 degrees (the worst in the country’s history in a century), Mohamed VI He also ordered the urgent deployment of the Army with important human resources and air and land logistics and also the establishment of a military hospital.

In 2004, Morocco suffered another earthquake in the Riffian town of Al Hoceima which caused hundreds of deaths. Then, the monarch, who was in the first years of his reign, traveled to the area for several days to care for the victims.

Source: Elcomercio

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