The Medical Devices Sector in Morocco: Current Situation and Patients Safety

Abstract

The medical devices represent a very important link in the care pathway or in the medical coverage because we cannot imagine a medical or surgical covery without support of a medical device of all categories I, IIa, IIb, III.  In this case their importance, their usefulness, the medical devices have acquired a particular attention and an avowal on the part of professionals and the sanitary deciders in terms of management, legislation, regulation, and also quality, in order to insure and guarantee an optimal quality care for the patients and with minimal risks or errors during the use of medical devices.

The aim of the actual article is to make a current situation of the institutions operating in the medical devices sector and to highlight their respect and conformity with the norms of specific quality with the medical devices and with their regulation so as to guarantee the security of the patients during the use of any medical device of all kinds and of all confused categories.

Among the settings tackled in this article, the action of the establishments operating in the medical device sector, their different legal forms, the respect of the continued formation, the establishment of traceability systems of medical devices, the respect of medical device reporting (Materiovigilance), the respect of the norm ISO 13485 [1], and of the legislation in effect to know the law 84-12 relating to the medical devices [2].