The fruits of normalization: the countries are warming relations - and so are the doctors • Rambam Hospital in Haifa has signed a cooperation agreement with the University Hospital in Rabat: "A new era"
Rabat Children's Hospital
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The warming relations between Israel and Morocco are bearing fruit - also in the medical field.
The Ruth Children's Hospital, located at Rambam Hospital in Haifa, will maintain academic and medical cooperation with the University Hospital for Children in Rabat, the capital of Morocco. This was recently agreed between the two institutions.
Representatives of the two hospitals recently held a virtual meeting to summarize the main points of the collaboration that is expected to be signed in the coming weeks.
The agreement will focus on collaboration in pediatric hemato-oncology.
The parties agreed to combine arms in research, information sharing and therapeutic experience, as well as training staff from Rabat Hospital, who are expected to attend further training at Rambam. Afterwards, Rambam staff are expected to pay a reciprocal visit to the Moroccan hospital.
The virtual meeting held between the parties also included the presentation of treatment cases as well as professional consultation regarding the patients.
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In the near future, there will probably be other similar virtual gatherings, in which experts from other hospitals in Israel, members of the Israeli Association of Hematology and Oncology in Children, will participate.
"We are very excited," said Prof. Ben Harush, former director of Ruth Children's Hospital and who mediated between the parties, "We are especially pleased to be a part of this historic move and to become a bridge of peace."
Dr. Shifra Ash, director of the hemato-oncology department at Ruth Hospital and head of the Israeli Association of Pediatric Hematology and Oncology, said the collaboration marks the "beginning of a new era."