Radio show raises conflict between journalists and health officials in Morocco

An episode of a popular weekly radio show titled "Take Your Head" has sparked widespread controversy in Morocco, prompting government officials to try to stop it, but Moroccan radio channel Mohamed Amoura has managed to present it on Saturday.

The Minister of Health, Anas Doukkali, and the Moroccan Association of Women Physicians have called for the program to stop after an episode titled "Medical Infidelity" that has sparked a lot of controversy and that had as its theme "Alert the fraud and fraud that Moroccans face when they seek treatment. "

It seems that the position of the High Authority for Audiovisual Communication was in line with that of most pioneers of social networks, with the exception of doctors, as well as the official position of the Union. the Moroccan press and the Forum of Moroccan Journalists, who denounced the Minister of Health's intervention in the media.

Gomorrah did not leave much in the Saturday episode, about medicine, where he discussed the aesthetic operations that have become widespread in Morocco, and called for caution.

The journalist began his presentation of the new episode by referring to the previous episode, which irritated the doctors, declaring: "Do not generalize his provisions, but talk about unscrupulous doctors", then expressed his respect for those who consider medicine as a message and not as a profession.

The radio received great solidarity after Minister Anas Doukkali reviewed what he presented "free for doctors and health professionals in the public and private sectors".

Al-Gomura responded to the minister in a letter published by the local press: "You acknowledge in your correspondence that the health sector is suffering from imbalances that the ministry's inspection and medical staff are striving to correct confirming the program. "

"The story will indicate that you are the Moroccan prime minister to lodge a complaint against a journalist who has a professional duty to denounce corruption under the Constitution's right to freedom of expression."