Hossam Abdel Ghaffar, the official spokesman for the Ministry of Health and Population, said during the launch of the first electronic platform for mental health and addiction treatment, that for the first time we are dealing with a rapidly spreading virus, and we still do not know how to treat or eliminate it and how to deal with it.
He said, for the first time we stand with the recipients of the service, explaining that we felt that we needed mental health and what we must do in order to be in harmony with reality, and the truth is that the Mental Health Secretariat and the World Health Organization fascinated us more and decided to deal in order to launch this platform, and We used to think that telemedicine was a strategy before Corona, and following Corona, it became inevitable.
He explained, that the platform results in the provision of counseling to psychiatric patients in various governorates, and it represents a success in creating a reality capable of adapting to circumstances, and transforming strategies into reality on the ground, and how to deal with major crises, which is the Corona pandemic, and it represents a success for the state, a success for the Ministry of Health and a success for an organization Global Health is the main partner with the Ministry of Health and Population, and to provide a safe and fair service to the Egyptian citizen.
