Update, November 10, 2026: Health Minister Younes Bjijou said the state would continue covering the salaries of staff affected by the introduction of territorial health groups and that the General Treasury would continue processing and paying them, according to MAP reporting carried by Medi1 News. In remarks to the House of Representatives’ social sectors committee, he also said the staff concerned would retain their civil-service status, rights and benefits. TelQuel separately reported those assurances. This adds the minister’s position to the dispute; it does not establish that the union has accepted it or that the strike call was withdrawn. Verified nationwide participation and service-impact figures were not available in the sources reviewed for this update.
Morocco’s National Health Union, affiliated with the Democratic Confederation of Labour (CDT), has called a nationwide strike for Tuesday, November 10, in a dispute over salary protections and the implementation of government commitments.
The union’s secretary-general, Mustapha Chennaoui, confirmed the strike call and a boycott of the next meeting with the health minister in a statement supplied to Safircom on November 7. Assabah and Madar21 separately reported the planned action and the union’s open letter to the head of government and the ministers responsible for finance and health.
A dispute over pay arrangements
According to those reports, the union argues that the proposed 2027 budget arrangements do not uphold earlier commitments concerning the payment of health workers’ salaries from the general state budget. It is asking the government to preserve employees’ existing protections as territorial health groups take on responsibilities in the health system.
These are the union’s allegations and interpretation of the proposed arrangements. The reporting reviewed for this article does not establish that salaries have stopped being paid, that individual pay has been cut, or that a court has found a breach of the government’s obligations.
The union also said it would boycott its forthcoming meeting with the health minister and retained the option of further protest action, Assabah reported. The announcement does not establish that every health union or every employee will participate.
Service impact is not yet established
The sources reviewed do not set out a verified nationwide timetable for service disruption, participation levels or arrangements for emergency care. A strike call is not evidence that all public hospitals or clinics will close. Patients with appointments should check directly with the facility concerned rather than assume their visit has been cancelled.
No ministry response specifically addressing this strike call was located in the reporting reviewed before publication. The account therefore does not resolve the underlying disagreement over the budget and salary arrangements.
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Photo: Driouch Provincial Hospital, photographed on August 7, 2023, by Visma17 via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0. Resized for display. An archive context image, not evidence of strike participation at this hospital.
