Mrs Mina Rhouch is a doctor deeply involved in the spanish civil society, particularly in Sevilla where she lives. Her sphere of action: helping the most vulnerable migrants, especially women and minors.
Mrs. Rhouch, representative of the Council of the Moroccans living abroad (CCME) is a member of “the Gender and New Generations Working Group”. On this advisory board, she works on immigrant women and unaccompanied minors . She has supervised two CCME publications on this subject as well as on the issue of adoption or the “kafala”.
“Migration can be a chance but, unfortunately, not everyone succedes. And the associative actors have the responsibility of raising awareness on this issue with the help of the government, “says Mrs Rouch in an interview with the Moroccan Press Agency (Map)
Mrs Rhouch, is a woman of ethics who struggles against the lack of interest to the problems of the least favored categories .This Reason why she fights for the rights to health for those people via the International Medical Center for Migrants set up in 1994, with other doctors and associative actors, to help poor immigrants and offer them care and support.
Immigration has always been an important issue for the French-Moroccan born in Kénitra who lives since 26 years in Spain.
“Immigration was neither an obligation nor a choice,” says Mrs Rouch pointing out that she considers herself as a “citizen of the world” who had the chance to travel around the world and discover other cultures, before landing with her husband in the spanish city of Sevilla.
Mrs Rhouch is particularly involved in the field of the employees in farms in southern Spain, essentially women who, together with minor migrants, are classified as ” very vulnerable”.
“For a while I worked in public health services but then I chose work essentially with the CIMME, whose motto is” Health is the right of peoples and the duty of leaders ” , regardless of the patient’s legal situation” she adds.
While this center works widely with migrants from southern Spain, it also carries out activities with international NGOs, to raise awareness of the social situation of the most deprived migrants and obstacles to their access to health.
For the Mrs Rhouch, the concept of health must be understood in its broadest definition, which encompasses psychic, physical, social and cultural well-being.
Mrs Rhouch also welcomed Morocco’s solidarity approach to sub-Saharan immigrants, who benefit from a regularization program in accordance with the High Guidelines of His Majesty King Mohammed VI”It is an act of solidarity and courage,” she noted, adding that cooperation with African countries must be implement.
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