Morocco Launches Project to Develop Blood Transport System in Six Regions
The Moroccan Agency for Blood and Its Derivatives has launched a project aimed at establishing a regional model for the blood transport system in six regions across the kingdom, including the East, Béni Mellal-Khénifra, Drâa-Tafilalet, Guelmim-Oued Noun, Laâyoune-Sakia El Hamra, and Dakhla-Oued Ed Dahab, with a budget of 2.6 million dirhams. The project aims to create a sustainable model ensuring self-reliance on blood and its derivatives, alongside enhancing the safety, quality, and tracking of blood products at the regional and national levels.
The initiative relies on a methodology based on a change theory, which includes field diagnostics in targeted areas, followed by experimental cycles to test innovative solutions before their broader adoption. The focus is on improving supply chain performance, reducing delivery times for blood products to less than two hours in major cities and six hours in rural areas during emergency situations.
The project also includes efforts to increase the number of regular donors by 10 to 20% through innovative awareness campaigns, activating the plasma collection and preparation chain in accordance with good manufacturing practices, and establishing local governance through regional committees in hospitals to monitor operations and ensure tracking.
This initiative comes as part of the agency’s efforts to ensure the availability of essential blood products across various regions of the kingdom, with the potential for evaluating the experience and extending it later in the context of improving the blood transport system nationwide.
