11:08 p.m
Wednesday 01 February 2023
Luxor – Mohamed Mahrous:
Counselor Mostafa Elham, Governor of Luxor, met today, Wednesday, Dr. Menen Abdel Maksoud, Secretary General of the General Secretariat for Mental Health and Addiction Treatment at the Ministry of Health and Population, and Dr. Iman Gaber, Director of the Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Department, in the presence of Dr. Taher Ayoub, Undersecretary of the Ministry of Health in Luxor Governorate.
The governor discussed with the Secretary of the Secretariat of Mental Health and Addiction Treatment ways to strengthen cooperation and efforts to complete the activities of the General Secretariat of Mental Health and Addiction Treatment in the governorate, expressing the governorate’s readiness to provide all aspects of support for the implementation of the activities of the secretariat.
The meeting witnessed a review of the implementation of the “Friends Counselor” training program, which is a peer support program to promote and spread awareness of mental health, which is implemented by the Municipality and targets adolescents, as a continuation of the success of the Municipality’s activities during the past year under the name “Teens Year”, which aimed to focus activities within the community in this category, which constitutes a space large number of Egyptians.
