The General Secretariat for Mental Health and Addiction Treatment, affiliated with the Ministry of Health and Population, has denied rumors that the singer, Sherine Abdel Wahab, had been detained with the knowledge of her family at Heliopolis Hospital for Mental. Health and Addiction Treatment.
The secretariat has confirmed that this information is completely false and that it does not have accurate information on the whereabouts of the aforementioned artist or on her health conditions.
He explained that the hospitals and affiliated centers, scattered in 16 governorates of the Republic, respect and operate in accordance with the Law on the care of the psychiatric patient n. 71 of 2009 and its amendments for the year 2021, which provides that the drug addict patient cannot be detained against his will and that the General Secretariat firmly refuses to insert his name or any of his hospitals in that ‘accident.
It is worth noting that the General Secretariat for Mental Health and Addiction Treatment is the central entity of the Ministry of Health and Population charged with providing mental health and addiction treatment services through its hospitals and affiliated centers in 16 governorates. Egyptians, for a total of 23 hospitals and addiction treatment centers, of which six in Greater Cairo: El Abbasiya and El Khanka Helwan, Heliopolis, Benha and Imbaba, and seven hospitals and centers in the Delta sector: Tanta, Shabraqas in the Gharbia, Shebin El-Koum, Mit Siraj in Menoufia, Al-Azzazi in Sharqia, Damira in Dakahlia and Franco Bazalea Center in Beheira. Six hospitals in the Upper Egypt sector are: Beni Suef, Minya, Assiut, Alwan, Sohag and Aswan. In addition to 4 hospitals in the coastal areas, namely Mamoura Hospital, Abbas Helmy Center in Alexandria Governorate, Port Said Hospital and El Azima Center in Hurghada.
It is also recalled that the Ministry of Health and Population represented by the General Secretariat of Mental Health is doing its best to provide mental health and addiction care services through its hospitals, as well as the free hotline service for advice, inquiries and support. psychological for the public 24 hours a day, seven days a week at: 16328
Last March, the General Secretariat launched its national electronic platform under the auspices of the Ministry of Health and Population and in partnership with the World Health Organization, to provide mental health and addiction care services to all citizens, including the provision of free (online) treatment sessions and in complete confidentiality of patient information interacting through it, and is the first platform It is the only one of its kind in the Middle East in the field of mental health and addiction treatment and number of visitors to the platform has reached a number greater than 48,000 so far.
