Casablanca: news on the circumstances of the death of three pregnant women

We know a little more about the deaths of three pregnant women in a private clinic in Casablanca during their cesarean deliveries on January 8, 2025.

A batch of bupivacaine, an anesthetic, is believed to be the cause of the deaths of these women. “Although this product is at the center of suspicion, only the autopsy report will make it possible to precisely determine the circumstances” of the tragedy, declared to Media24 the management of the establishment Jnane Taddart, specifying that an investigation is underway and that a commission from the Ministry of Health, accompanied by the judicial authorities, has been dispatched to the site. Management says it “deeply regrets this incident. This is an unprecedented situation for us. Since the clinic opened in 2023, we have carried out approximately 2,750 cesarean deliveries without recording a single death. »