Casablanca - As Morocco gradually pulls itself from the wreckage of the COVID-19 pandemic, the country’s government is becoming more interested in developing Public-Private Partnerships (PPPs), especially in the healthcare sector. 

Faced with the urgency of making the Moroccan healthcare system more resilient and a more reliable provider of quality service, the government appears to have been compelled to forge new partnerships for innovative, effective solutions to the country’s pressing health challenges. 

While the global health context -- the COVID crisis and now, increasingly, the Monkeypox threat -- played a critical role in Morocco’s embrace of Public-Private Partnerships, a large part of this shift can be ascribed to a certain desire to finally start a long overdue conversation about addressing some of the persistent, institutional inadequacies of Moroccan healthcare.

Indeed, the fact remains that, the ubiquity of chronic diseases among a sizable portion of the Moroccan population, the dearth of personnel at Moroccan hospitals and community health centers, and the inadequacy of medical material at the vast majority of facilities have long been the elephant in the room of Moroccan healthcare.