PDGN Vice-President, Senator Dr Mustafa Brahimi, is proposing a number of amendments to the 2022 health budget with ideas to help prevent diabetes and improve treatment for those with the condition.
Senator Brahimi is amending the country’s Finance Bill as it makes its way towards a final vote by the Commission this month.
Brahimi want’s next year’s budget to include reduced customs duties for oral anti-diabetic drugs and insulin from 40 percent to 2.5 percent. He is calling to exempt the rest of the drugs market in Morocco from value added tax.
To help prevention of diabetes he has further proposed an increase in the internal consumption tax (ICT) for sugar products (cookies, yoghurt, candy, chocolate, etc).
Advocacy Action: Budget time is a great time to raise issues around diabetes that require funding and are an opportunity to text the administration’s resolve whether at a national, regional or local level.