Emergency doctor
Wafaa has been managing the Casablanca Samusocial emergencies service since
2009. Wafaa Bahous has made of assistance to the most precarious people of the
business capital her calling. Her mission
is to manage emergencies. The entity
where she works is the first link in a chain of solidarity and fight against
social exclusion. And if those
who work there can carry out their task with such efficiency, it is also
because they know that they will be able to rely on other NGO and institutional
relays to take care of the management of patients once the emergency has been treated. Children and women are the main beneficiaries of accommodation at the
‘”Samusocial” center, but also the homeless who receive medical, psychological
and social benefits. The center
has thirty-two beds, with a day service open to all the public. People in very precarious situations thus have access to hygiene care,
medical follow-up and administrative and legal support. Wafaa Bahous dreams of a Morocco where citizens would be more willing to
volunteer. She
tirelessly hammers that the gift is not limited to the coin that is given to
the beggars. Moreover,
she said, begging is a complex issue:
"This can be a problem for us. As long as
there are people who give money away in the street, some of the audience targeted
by our action is not reached by the assistance that we propose. So it's sometimes complicated to play our role fully. "