The total investment budget planned for the 2008-2012 period in the field of health in the Sahara region amounts to MAD 220.6 million divided as follows:

• 128.9 MMDA from the budget of the Ministry of Health representing 58%
• 50 MMAD from the budget of the Agency for the Development of Southern Provinces representing 23%
• 30 MMDA budget from the budget of local governments representing 14%
• finally 11.7 MMAD from the budget of the National Initiative for Human Development i.e. 5% of the total amount
• This budget is distributed over the region’s provinces as follows:

Laayoune Province  

• Creating a new surgery block
• Resuscitation Service Repair
• Creating a care service for burnings 
• Expansion and modernization of emergencies
• Creating a day hospital
• Creating a service of gynaecology and paediatrics
• Creating an itinerant service for emergency care in charge of coordinating interventions with mobile medical units to be established at three administrative regions in the Sahara region and will be equipped with ambulances
• Creating an oncology centre in association with the foundation Lalla Salma to fight against cancer
  Expanding of haemodialysis centre moving from 15 to 30 machines 

The list of investment projects in health infrastructure expected in the province of Laayoune for the 2008-2012 period is as follows:

Projects	Beneficiary Commune	Province	Total investment (Million MAD)	Financing
Creation of Al Massira urban medical center	Laâyoune	Laâyoune	1.7	Ministry of Health
Creation of Al Wahda 2 urban medical center	Laâyoune	Laâyoune	1.7	Ministry of Health
Expansion of the urban medical centre	Tarfaya	Laâyoune	2.0	Ministry of Health
Expansion and arrangement of Slim Bab Labchir Amar urban hospital	Laâyoune	Laâyoune	0.3	Ministry of Health

Provinces of Dakhla / Aousserd (Oued Eddahab)  

The major action is the upgrading of the provincial hospital into a regional hospital centre with a capacity ranging between 53 and 80 beds through the following investments:

. Strengthening surgery bloc with the creation of:

• a surgery service of bones and joints
• an ophthalmology service
• an otorhinolaryngology service 

 . Strengthening the medicine bloc with the creation of

• a cardiology service
• a pneumonia service

. Setting up a scanner unit

. Expansion of haemodialysis centres to house 12 machines instead of 6 units.
 
. Refurbishment of other services such as the laboratory medical, Magnetic resonance imaging
 and utilities

The following table provides a list of infrastructure investments planned in the provinces of Dakhla / Aousserd (Oued Eddahab) for the 2008-2012 period:

Projects	Beneficiary Commune	Province	Total investment (Million MAD)	Financing
Construction of a clinic in the fishing village of Bouirda	Oued Eddahab	Oued Eddahab	3.2	Partners
Construction of a clinic in the fishing village of Serqa	Oued Eddahab	Oued Eddahab	0.3	Partners

Smara Province

Planned investments in this province are as follows:

• Modernization and arrangement of existing medical infrastructure
• Comprehensive equipment of medical and emergency services by biomedical products 
• Extension of gynaecology service

The following table shows the achievements provided in the province in terms of infrastructure:

Projects	Beneficiary Commune	Province	Total investment (Million MAD)	Financing
Conducting a laboratory of epidemics and health prevention	Smara	Smara	0.8	Ministry of Health

Boujdour Province

Planned investments in this province are as follows:

• Modernization and arrangement of the existing health infrastructure
• Comprehensive equipment of medical and emergency services with biomedical products
• Creating a Haemodialysis center with 6 machines
• Creating and equipping a department of pediatrics

The following table provides a list of achievements included in the province in terms of infrastructure:

Projects	Beneficiary Commune	Province	Total investment (Million MAD)	Financing
Conducting a communal clinic with a delivery room at Lemssid	Lemssid	Boujdour	1.6	Ministry of Health