{"id":55,"date":"2014-11-06T02:58:58","date_gmt":"2014-11-06T02:58:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/demo.ovatheme.com\/egovt\/?p=55"},"modified":"2025-03-14T20:37:44","modified_gmt":"2025-03-14T20:37:44","slug":"maroc-la-medecine-legale-manque-de-tout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cmpf.ma\/en\/maroc-la-medecine-legale-manque-de-tout\/","title":{"rendered":"Morocco : The forensic lack of any"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The national Council of Human rights (CNDH) has unveiled Monday in Rabat, his study on the forensic activities in Morocco. This investigation was carried out to determine the modalities of implementation of a reform of this sector, which suffers from many shortcomings. In its study, the COMMISSION draws attention to the critical shortage of professionals in the sector.\u00a0<\/span>
Morocco has only 13 forensic experts and a single service, university hospital and university in this discipline. The NHRC noted that outside of the medical specialists in forensic medicine, the hospital doctors who perform autopsies have no education. As for the doctors of the municipal offices of hygiene trained for autopsies, a large number of them is in pre-retirement.
On the medico-legal activities-related deaths, the study notes that most of the morgues hospital are old and are facing a failure in both qualitative and quantitative material for autopsies. This, it should also be noted that the doctors in charge of the autopsies are not always informed on the issues of investigations and their compensation as part of the cost of justice in criminal matters is insignificant.
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The study also points a finger at a bad identification of activities thanatologiques and the production of medical certificates-legal. Among other findings, the study notes the low level of funding and is not suitable forensic activities by the department of justice. To address these many issues, the COMMISSION has made several recommendations . Start with the creation of a national Institute of forensic medicine, which will be several missions. This new instance will have the task of designing the legal and regulatory framework governing the medico-legal activities including through the definition of the required qualifications for physicians.
She will also be responsible to identify the areas of intervention of the medical examiner and determine sites authorized to host the medico-legal activities. Norms and standards shall be determined for the execution of the various services medico-legal.
In addition, the COMMISSION recommends that the public hospital service in the heart of the device, and to revise the regulations setting out the criteria for inscription on the register of experts. In this regard, the Commission suggests that the inclusion of office of the medical examiners on the tables and to give priority to the doctors who founded training and expertise in repair of personal injury.
The NHRC calls for the creation of services of forensic medicine in the university hospital and the consolidation of training in some fields of forensic medicine. For the NHRC, a better identification of forensic medicine should be accompanied by sufficient funding for its benefits on costs of justice, with a financial contribution for the hospital or the municipality in respect of the costs of the structure.
Methodology of the study
This study was carried out by a multidisciplinary team that is based on three fields of forensic activities: the field thanatologique including autopsies and external examinations of the corpses, the field of forensic certificates of all kinds, including for women and children victims of violence, and finally, the field of expertises m\u00e9dico-legal. The working group has conducted a review of all of the instruments and the reports of the international law of Human rights relevant in the field of forensic activities and the moroccan legislation, which includes sixteen references.
The mission examined the then eleven foreign models of organization of forensic pathology, to better understand the specifics of the situation and moroccan inspired proposals for reform. The studied countries are Tunisia, Algeria, France, Switzerland, Portugal, the netherlands, Egypt, Sweden, Spain, Germany, and Italy. The mission in charge of the study has undertaken tours of the courts of first instance, hospitals and municipal offices hygiene of the following cities : Tangiers, El Jadida, Safi, Khouribga, Rabat, Fez and Casablanca. This mission took place from 18 January to 12 February 2013. The draft of the report was the subject of a work meeting, may 21, 2013, which enabled the validation of the findings and the relevance of the recommendations suggested in the report
The expertise of the forensic entrusted to doctors not trained
The expertise of the forensic are entrusted by general physicians inscribed on the tables of experts in the Courts of appeal. Most of them have no prior training in the field of expertise and assessment of the physical damage. The medical officers trained to expertise \u2013 and first and foremost the teachers in medicine and the medical examiners are not permitted to access the tables, on the ground that the expertise is an activity which is liberal remunerative which cumulation is incompatible with the public service. Moreover, the appointment of an expert is sometimes made out of their specialty. It should be noted that many of the forensic experts are at the same time, medical insurance companies, parties to the proceedings. This refutes the principle of independence and impartiality. For expert missions, these are not standardized by the courts.
Practices expertales are also disparate, both at the procedural level and at the level of the writing of the report. There is rarely a discussion of the findings made by the expert and the heads of damages are often determined in a peremptory manner. Finally, the COMMISSION indicates that the compensation of experts remains, especially in the framework of legal assistance, very inadequate (100 to 200 DH).
30 DH for the examination of a corpse and 100 DH for the autopsy
In its report on the medico-legal activities, the national Council for Human rights (CNDH) note that the remuneration of doctors in charge of the autopsies in the framework of the cost of justice in criminal matters is insufficient. And for example, the doctor will only affect that 30 DH for the examination of a corpse with the filing of the report, 100 DH for the autopsy of a corpse with burial and 150 DH for the examination of a corpse rotten.
The compensation does not cover the cost of the structure and provision of premises and equipment by hospitals and municipalities. In addition, the COMMISSION notes that the doctors in charge of the autopsies are not always informed on the issues of the investigations. Their activity is not supervised or evaluated, which contributes to their low efficiency in criminal investigations.<\/span>\u00a0<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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