Health: The Presidential Initiative is your happiness continues to construct its integrated services in combating addiction

The Ministry of Health and Population announced the persevered provision of outpatient services for addiction remedy of the Overall Secretariat of Mental Health and Addiction Medication, within the framework of the Egyptian relate’s keenness to supply a boost to mental neatly being, wrestle addiction, and promote public neatly being of citizens, particularly groups most at possibility of possibility.

Dr. Hossam Abdel Ghaffar, the first price spokesman for the Ministry of Health and Population, explained that the initiative persevered to construct its services thru the injure objects, as the preference of normal of us in these objects reached 870 citizens for the length of the month of August, and 585 cases procure been presented to the inner departments for remedy, bringing the entire cases for the reason that open up of the initiative in November 2024 to 5 thousand and 223 cases. He added that 245 patients efficiently accomplished the remedy program for the length of August, bringing the entire 2,401 cases of enchancment for the reason that initiative started.

For his phase, Dr. Ayman Abbas, Head of the Central Administration of the Overall Secretariat of Mental Health and Addiction Medication, indicated that the preference of becoming a member of cases of relapse security program has reached 857 cases to this point, whereas the preference of beneficiaries of consciousness seminars within hospitals reached 845 citizens for the length of August, bringing the entire to 53 thousand and 197 beneficiaries. The preference of beneficiaries of neighborhood seminars reached 213 thousand and 566 citizens.

Abbas added that the entire preference of faculty students benefiting from consciousness capabilities reached 456 thousand and 995 college students, thru 10 thousand and 417 consciousness lessons for the reason that open up of the initiative, within the framework of stopping addiction amongst school college students.

He furthermore pointed to the persevered conduct of the detection of narcotic drug exercise, as 4 thousand and 360 workers of the relate administrative equipment procure been examined for the length of August, with a entire of 54 thousand and 961 analyzes to this point. Also, the preference of drivers who had the analyzes reached 17 thousand and 136 drivers for the length of the identical month, bringing the entire to 58 thousand and 548 drivers.

For her phase, Dr. Raghda Al -Jamil, Director of the Addiction Medication Department of the Overall Secretariat of Mental Health, explained that the initiative is imposing a coaching program for physique of workers in significant care facilities, where 50 other folks procure been professional with the participation of twenty-two facilities of the entire facilities participating in offering remedy and consciousness services.

She emphasised that these efforts arrive within the framework of an integrated imaginative and prescient that depends on the growth of prevention and remedy services, and the combination of mental neatly being services within the first care system, in a manner that ensures easy safe entry to to services, and reaching prevention and early detection, which reflects positively on making improvements to the quality of life for citizens.