In Morocco, it is possible to buy medicines in small quantities out of pharmacies. According to the Poison Control and Pharmacovigilance center of Morocco ( CAPM), the sale of these products outside the conventional circuit exposes the population to the risks due to the misuse and bad quality of the products. But Moroccans continue to buy retail medicines for the sake of convenience. However these products can be dangerous by their composition which is submitted to no AMM (marketing authorization), to no quality control (case of the counterfeit products), to no expiry date and no controls of the supply chain (transport and storage).
The medicines sector in Morocco is well regulated. The distribution network consists of laboratories which make or import medicines and sells them to the wholesalers that in turn supply pharmacies. This distribution is respected in approximately 98 %. Furthermore, Morocco has 12,000 pharmacies today, what minimizes this kind of practices. There are trafficking drugs networks in our country (from Algeria and from the city of Mélilia), but which remains very pitful.
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