Ouarzazate: French tourists refused in a hospital

In Ouarzazate, the public hospital finds itself at the heart of a controversy because of the refusal of a health technician to perform an x-ray on two French tourists for religious reasons.

Victims of an accident, two French tourists requested a consultation at the public hospital in Ouarzazate. They asked to have an x-ray done by a health technician. But he refused on the grounds that his religious beliefs prohibited him from touching women, or working with them, reports Assaba. The two women only benefited from a diagnosis carried out by one of the doctors at this establishment. The latter explained to them that what they were feeling after their accident were just simple symptoms, which would disappear a few days later.