Morocco travel health
Required is not recommended: the first is what the border asks about, the second is what a clinic would suggest. Both, for Morocco, then the number to dial and what care costs a visitor. Applies to every guide in Morocco: Fes, Marrakech, Chefchaouen, Agadir, Essaouira, Merzouga & the Sahara.
Required to enter
- Yellow fever certificate, but only if you are arriving from a country where yellow fever is present
Recommended
- Hepatitis A
- Typhoid
- Tetanus up to date
- Rabies for longer stays — stray dogs and cats are everywhere
Emergency number
150 for an ambulance, 190 for police
Care for visitors
Good but costly
Private clinics in Marrakesh and Casablanca are reasonable and inexpensive, and expect cash or an insurance guarantee up front. Public hospitals are basic. Pharmacies are excellent, widespread and can dispense a lot without a prescription.
Do not drink the tap water. Stomach upsets are the most common complaint by a distance.
The general rules — clinic timing, water, mosquitoes, insurance — are in travel health tips.
The guides in Morocco
FesMoroccoThe largest car-free urban area on earth, and it has been that way for 1,200 years
MarrakechMoroccoSpices, souks, and desert sunsets
ChefchaouenMoroccoA medina painted every shade of blue, on a mountainside in the Rif, three hours from anywhere
AgadirMoroccoTen kilometres of Atlantic beach, three hundred days of sun, and no medina
EssaouiraMoroccoA walled Atlantic port of white and blue, with trade winds that made it a kitesurfing town
Merzouga & the SaharaMoroccoThe dunes of Erg Chebbi, 150 metres high, at the end of the road from Marrakech