See an Online Doctor in Morocco By video, from your riad or hotel.

The 24-hour pharmacy is the most useful thing to know

FCDO states that pharmacies are open 24 hours in every city and district of Morocco, so wherever you are staying there is a pharmacy open at night, and for a lot of ordinary travel illness that is a sensible first stop.

FCDO also notes that if a medicine you take is not available under its usual name, a pharmacy can supply medication on a prescription from a Moroccan doctor. That is the practical route if you have run out of something rather than fallen ill.

Public and private care are not interchangeable

FCDO's assessment is direct: public health facilities in Morocco provide limited medical care, and private clinics operate to a higher standard. For a visitor who needs to be examined, that usually means a private clinic in one of the larger cities.

It is also why FCDO advises holding adequate travel health insurance with funds accessible for treatment and repatriation. A consultation cannot substitute for that, and this page does not pretend otherwise.

Distance is part of the problem outside the cities

Atlas trekking, desert trips and the smaller coastal towns all put real distance between a traveller and a clinic. The pharmacy network is dense in cities and districts; a mountain guesthouse is a different situation.

That changes what a consultation is for. In a city it can save you a trip. Somewhere remote, it is often about deciding whether the trip is necessary at all, and how urgently, which is a harder question to answer alone.

Words that help at the counter

French is widely used in Moroccan healthcare alongside Arabic, so these are the phrases most likely to land at a pharmacy counter.

Bringing a prescription from home

FCDO's guidance for Morocco is practical: if you have a UK prescription and need medication, contact the nearest pharmacy; if they do not have your medication, they will ask you to get another prescription from a Moroccan doctor for an alternative. And the pharmacies are open 24 hours in every city and district, so the first step is never far.

The second step, a Moroccan doctor, is where a video consultation with a doctor licensed in Morocco fits: an assessment from your room, and a prescription where it is clinically appropriate and local rules permit.

Public facilities, private clinics, and why insurance is not optional

FCDO states plainly that public health facilities in Morocco provide limited medical care, that private clinics are available and operate to a higher standard, and that travellers should have adequate travel health insurance and accessible funds for treatment and repatriation. FCDO also publishes a list of medical providers where some staff speak English.

For anything that needs an examination, that is the route. A video consultation is for deciding whether you are there yet, and for the large share of holiday illness that is not.

Two Morocco-specific warnings worth knowing

FCDO reports deaths and serious illness from alcoholic drinks containing methanol in Morocco, notes that methanol cannot be identified by taste or smell, and says to seek urgent medical attention if anyone shows signs of methanol poisoning after drinking. That is an emergency, not a consultation.

Separately, FCDO warns that henna tattoos can cause a painful allergic reaction with swelling and an itchy rash in some people. A reaction like that is something a doctor can look at by video and advise on.