Dr. Mann Abdel Maqsoud, Head of the Mental Health and Addiction Treatment Secretariat at the Ministry of Health, confirmed that HIV and C virus treatment services are provided free of charge and in complete confidentiality.
The head of the Mental Health and Addiction Treatment Secretariat at the Ministry of Health continued that the service is being provided in mental health hospitals in 9 different governorates as a first stage, and a large number of patients have been examined and treatment dispensed for positive cases, noting that the service has been opened in the rest of the secretariat’s hospitals during the current month to include 15 provinces.
Dr. Mann Abdel-Maqsoud continued: The specialized virus clinics within the hospitals of the General Secretariat for Mental Health and Addiction Treatment continue to provide screening, diagnosis and treatment services for hepatitis viruses (PBC) and HIV (AIDS), for all addiction patients who frequent hospitals in the Secretariat, whether from outpatients or outpatients. Of the patients reserved in the internal departments.
In another context, Dr. Mann Abdel-Maqsoud, Secretary General of Mental Health and Addiction Treatment Hospitals at the Ministry of Health, confirmed that 519,506 citizens had received mental health services in the Secretariat Hospitals in the Republic from January 2020 until last December.
Dr. Mann Abdel-Maqsoud, Secretary General of Mental Health and Addiction Treatment Hospitals at the Ministry of Health, said in an interview with Al-Youm Al-Sabea that 7588 psychiatric patients have been detained in the internal departments and 3610 addiction patients in the addiction department, and 42,487 children and 23,547 adolescents have visited the clinics. The geriatric clinics are 11,268 elderly persons, bringing the total number of patients to 464,066 outpatient psychiatric patients and 11,894 addiction patients.
Dr. Mann Abdel Maqsoud explained that the establishment of Sohag Hospital for Mental Health has been completed, and sections 30A and 30B have been opened in the developed men’s unit in the Abbasid Mental Health Hospital, and Section 29 has been opened in the Women’s Unit of the Abbasid Mental Health Hospital after comprehensive development, in addition to that. Development work has been completed in the Bait Al Shams pediatric unit at Abbasia Mental Health Hospital.
On the psychological support plan during the Corona pandemic, which included 3 categories, namely the medical team, patients and society in general, Dr.Manen Abdel-Maqsoud said: that a psychological evaluation service was provided inside isolation, chest and fever hospitals, and 705 patients from hospitals were debated by specialized psychiatrists under the supervision of Hospitals of the General Secretariat for Mental Health and Addiction Treatment.
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