Up to 50,000 new cases of cancer are registered each year in Morocco. Approximately 10,000 of these receive some form of treatment although few receive palliative care. The Moroccan Society of Management of Pain and Palliative Care in Rabat provides the only palliative care in Morocco. Since opening the centre, 750 patients have been treated each year for post-operative pain, 800 patients are hospitalised each year for cancer pain, and more than 4,500 patients have attended pain consultations.⁶