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Headline Morocco: "Return to Meknes" by Philip Boucas, 1959 
Description Morocco’s 10,000 cases of paralysis resulting from the most terrible mass poisoning the history of medicine has ever seen have now been continuing their struggle for more than a year. It was in September 1959 that so many people in Meknes ant its surroundings were intoxicated with criminally adulterated oil. At the request of the Moroccan Government WHO sent specialists who diagnosed the disease and helped organize care for the victims. At six physical reeducation centers 50 doctors and nurses from 14 national Red Cross Societies are assisting Moroccan efforts to return patients to normal life. One third of the victims are likely to remain invalids; for another third victory is at hand. For the last third there is every reason to hope that they will be able to resume a useful existence after prolonged treatment.



Physiotherapist Lilian Thylen, of the Swedish Red Cross during treatment of a patient’s foot muscles at the Sidi Kacem Centre. 
Asset date 01/01/1959 
Country, area, WHO office Morocco
WHO Region EMRO
Copyright © WHO / Philip Boucas 
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