03:38 PM Thursday, January 25, 2024
Books – Ahmed Gomaa:
The Ministry of Health and Population announced that the number of visitors to the electronic platform of the General Secretariat of Mental Health and Addiction Treatment, since its launch on March 16, 2022 until today, has reached 84,269 visitors.
This comes within the framework of the directives of Dr. Khaled Abdel Ghaffar, Minister of Health and Population, to provide psychological support services, psychological counseling, and addiction treatment to citizens, and to work to raise awareness of how to obtain medical consultations for mental health, via the electronic platform.
Dr. Hossam Abdel Ghaffar, the official spokesman for the Ministry of Health and Population, indicated that the number of electronic questionnaires that were completed by users exceeded 20,000 questionnaires, while the number of “virtual” therapeutic sessions that were provided to visitors to the platform reached more than 6,416 sessions.
For her part, Dr. Menen Abdel Maqsoud, Secretary-General of the Secretariat of Mental Health and Addiction Treatment, said that the percentage of visitors to the platform was 68% of females, compared to 32% of males, confirming that the platform’s visitors included 22% of married people, compared to 78% of unmarried people.
Abdel Maqsoud indicated that most of the age groups that used the platform were teenagers and young adults, while the percentage of non-working users reached 65%, compared to 35% of workers across the governorates of the Republic.
She stressed that the electronic platform for mental health and addiction treatment aims to provide free mental health and addiction treatment services to all age groups, Egyptians and non-Egyptians residing in Egypt, which is the first of its kind in the Eastern Mediterranean region, calling on all citizens to visit the platform and benefit from the various services. Provided by the General Secretariat of Mental Health and Addiction Treatment via the following link: here
She added that the General Secretariat of Mental Health and Addiction Treatment holds periodic meetings for therapists on the national platform, to discuss mechanisms for developing work on the platform and the technical and technical obstacles to remove, with the aim of maintaining the development of the level of service provided to the public.
2024-01-25 13:38:00
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