With the normalization of bilateral ties in December, Israel and Morocco are now looking to joining forces on the medical front.
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Rambam Healthcare Campus's Ruth Rappaport Children's Hospital in Haifa recently agreed to cooperate in both the medical and academic fields with the University Children's Hospital in the Moroccan capital of Rabat.
Representatives of both hospitals are set to sign off on the agreement in the coming weeks.
The two hospitals are set to focus their joint efforts in the field of pediatric hematology/oncology.
The Moroccan and Israeli hospitals agreed to work together in the field of research and share information and treatment experience. Rabat medical staff will come to Israel for their continued training at the Rambam hospital. Rambam medical staff will later reciprocate with a visit to the Moroccan hospital.
Virtual meetings to be attended by experts from other Israeli hospitals and members of the Israeli Society of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology will also be held.
"We are very excited," Professor Myriam Ben Arush, the former director of the Ruth Rappaport Children's Hospital's Pediatric Division and the woman who served as a mediator in the process, said.
Lauding the move, she said, "We are particularly happy to be part of this historic process and become a bridge for peace."
Dr. Shifra Ash, the director of Rambam's Pediatric Hematology & Oncology Department and the head of the Israeli Society of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology, said the collaboration marked "the beginning of a new era."
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