Written by Mahmoud Hussein Sunday, March 3, 2024 08:00 PM
The Senate Health and Population Committee held a meeting, chaired by Representative Dr. Ali Mahran, Chairman of the Committee, to discuss the proposal submitted by Representative Osama Fahim, regarding: “Providing financial support, supplies, and equipment for the hospital in the village of Mit Siraj Quwaisna, Menoufia,” in the presence of government representatives.
Representative Osama Fahim, who submitted the proposal, said with the desire that Takamul hospitals were established to provide health services alongside the central hospitals, and the Mit Siraj Village Hospital was established in the Quesna Center. Takamul Hospital is built on an area of three acres, and a building consisting of three floors, the first floor of which was allocated as a health unit to provide Primary services, the second floor has psychiatric clinics three days a week, and the third floor is inpatient accommodation for patients with mental illness and addiction treatment, and it has been closed for more than three years.
Representative Osama Fahim pointed out the residents’ dissatisfaction with the lack of a separate entrance to the health unit clinic from the mental health and addiction treatment clinic, which represents a danger to those who frequent the health unit.
The proposer requested, with a desire, clarification of the reasons for not operating psychiatric and addiction treatment clinics, along with providing the necessary financial support to restart the hospital and maximize its full benefit.
For his part, Dr. Osama Al-Shalkamy, Undersecretary of the Directorate of Health Affairs in Menoufia, explained that the aforementioned hospital is not affiliated with the Directorate of Health Affairs in Menoufia, as its affiliation was transferred to the General Secretariat for Mental Health and Addiction Treatment in accordance with the decision of the Executive Council of the Governorate on 1/21/2020, in order to establish a specialized hospital. To treat addiction with a capacity of 90 beds, the ground floor will be maintained to provide primary care services for the Family Health Center in the Directorate of Health Affairs in Menoufia.
For his part, Dr. Al-Sayed Khalil, Director of the Planning Department at the Secretariat of Mental Health and Addiction Treatment, revealed that the aforementioned hospital was received on 6/14/2021, and a clinic for psychiatry and addiction treatment was established on the first floor of the building in conjunction with the provision of primary care services for family medicine on the ground floor through the same The entrance, due to the difficulty of creating an independent entrance, and the Faculty of Engineering at Ain Shams University was assisted in preparing engineering drawings to establish a hospital for mental health and addiction treatment with a capacity of 240 beds. The engineering drawings are being approved through the Control and Accreditation Authority until financial appropriations are available for implementation.
In the same context, Dr. Ahmed Saafan, head of the health care sector, explained that Takamul hospitals across the Republic were established according to old health codes, and that the facilities of these hospitals are not suitable for providing medical services according to the currently approved health codes, and that it is possible to maximize the benefit from these. Hospitals by using them as nursing schools or as units to provide primary care services for family medicine.
For their part, members of the Health and Population Committee of the Sheikh Council said that it is unacceptable for psychiatric services and addiction treatment to be provided simultaneously with the provision of primary care services for family medicine, and that it is necessary to have an independent entrance for each clinic, and called on the General Secretariat of Mental Health to clarify the reasons for not The regular operation of mental health clinics in the hospital so far.
At the end of the meeting, the committee recommended the necessity of regular operation of the mental health and addiction treatment clinics at the Mit Siraj Village Hospital in the Quesna Center in Menoufia Governorate, until the necessary financial funds are provided to establish a mental health and addiction hospital with a capacity of 240 beds.
It also recommended specifying a separate entrance for psychiatric and addiction treatment clinics, away from the entrance to outpatient and preventive medicine clinics. It also recommended quickly completing the engineering drawings for the Takamul Hospital in the village of Mit Siraj in the Quesna Center in Menoufia Governorate, which are being modified at the Faculty of Engineering, Ain Shams University.
2024-03-03 18:00:00
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