Morocco's new online medical database.

The View from Fez needed a dentist for one of our staff. The problem was that none of us had ever been to a dentist in Fez and didn't know where to start - but then help came in the form of the internet.

Morocco now has an online medical directory (check it out here) with the added advantage of also being designed to provide visitors with easy, fast and free medical and paramedical information in different cities of the kingdom.

Initiated by doctors, computer specialists and economists, the website is primarily a reference point and described by medical experts as being reliable source of information.

The database is the result of ten years of research by Doctor Abdelaziz Hsseissen., who toured Morocco many times to gather medical and paramedical information.


The website designers say it is characterised by its simplicity with the main objective being to allow visitors to search for and easily locate doctors, pharmacies or medical information. All information is classified by name, region and specialty. To overcome difficulties related to the French transcription of Arab names, many search options were set up. For example, visitors need type only one letter of the name to have the contacts of all doctors whose names start with the typed letter.

Such an online source of information should serve the country well as Morocco is experiencing a boom in terms of Internet and computer sciences and for many research via the internet has become a daily process.

The View from Fez is happy to report that the system worked beautifully and that our staff member has an appointment with the dentist on Saturday morning. Our thanks to all those who made this database possible.

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