More than $2.6 million was collected during a telethon organized last Friday in Rabat to raise funds for children with a heart defects, Panafrican News Agency (PANA) reported.
According to the 2M Television station which conceived the event, the amount was higher than the $1.5 million originally envisaged for the construction and equipping of a Children's Heart Center in Casablanca, 100km south of Rabat.
Renowned French and Egyptian singers as well as senior Moroccan medical personalities and leaders of local health associations attended the show.
Out of the 10,000 heart patients in Morocco, 3,000 are children awaiting heart operations – Albawaba.com
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