The Wali Director of Immigration and Border Surveillance on the Ministry of the Inside, Khalid Zerouali, affirmed that Morocco was capable of optimally handle the consequences of Al Haouz earthquake due to the royal imaginative and prescient.
In an interview printed within the newest subject of the Gendarmerie Royale journal, Zerouali recalled that following Al-Hoceima earthquake in 2004, His Majesty King Mohammed VI instructed the implementation of an emergency administration technique, which has enabled Morocco to develop efficient coordination and intervention mechanisms, enabling it to optimally handle emergencies.
The Moroccan official pressured that this technique enabled speedy and dependable evaluation of the state of affairs on the bottom because the very first moments after the earthquake hit Al Haouz area and the identification of precedence actions to be undertaken through the intervention part, noting that the latter was launched with a exact motion plan aimed toward saving lives, offering emergency medical help to the injured, and guaranteeing optimum situations of lodging and provides for these affected.
Zerouali additionally defined that the intervention part centered on opening up roads and restoring consuming water, electrical energy, and telecommunication networks, to open up remoted localities, including that the following stage centered on restoring the state of affairs and returning to regular, by means of the reopening of colleges and the resumption of the inhabitants’s every day actions.
The official famous that this plan relies on a coordinated ecosystem encompassing Mohammed V Basis for Solidarity, the related ministerial departments, the Royal Armed Forces (FAR), Safety Companies, Civil Safety, elected representatives, and civil society.
Zerouali additionally identified that 9 days following the earthquake, and per the Excessive Royal Directions, a consensus to establish buildings that had completely or partially collapsed was launched to provoke the reconstruction and rehabilitation part.
“These operations are a part of a extra complete plan desired by His Majesty the King, might Allah help Him, to provide new impetus to the event of those territories by means of an unprecedented modernization of infrastructures and an enhancement of the standard of public providers,” famous Zerouali, stressing that “the final word goal is to make sure that the Excessive Atlas provinces are a part of the Kingdom’s dynamic socio-economic growth”.
Commenting on the function of the Ministry of Inside within the administration of Al Haouz earthquake, Zerouali recalled that the Ministry had contributed inside the framework of a world method, specializing in operations administration and assist processes, noting that stations of command have been established at central, regional and native ranges to make sure optimum coordination between the events concerned.
Zerouali acknowledged that on the operational stage, the departments underneath the Ministry of Inside contributed to go looking and rescue operations together with their navy counterparts, whereas when it comes to assist course of, the Ministry ensured common and environment friendly communication by issuing communiqués to tell the general public of the state of affairs along with its contribution to logistics and provide actions.
Recalling the worldwide reward obtained by the Kingdom for its profitable administration of the implications of this earthquake, Zerouali known as for continued common testing of coordination and intervention mechanisms to strengthen response capacities and reinforce the nationwide technique for emergency administration.
“The outpouring of solidarity proven by all Moroccans with the stricken populations was a key factor within the profitable administration of the consequences of the earthquake,” famous the Moroccan official, commencing the professionalism of the worldwide aid and rescue groups who labored alongside their Moroccan counterparts to make sure an efficient and complete response.