Dr. Ihab Al-Kharrat, consultant of psychiatry and addiction treatment at the General Secretariat of Mental Health at Abbasiya Hospital, received today, Monday, Representative Soha Saeed, Secretary of the Coordination of Youth Parties and Politicians and a Senator, and a delegation from the Coordination in the presence of Dr. Manen Abdel-Maqsoud, Secretary-General of Mental Health and Addiction Treatment Hospitals.
The meeting discussed the problems of issuing licenses for addiction treatment clinics and their succession to facilitate the expansion of the establishment of rehabilitation centers to accommodate the neediest groups of recoverers, and the possibility of accrediting internationally recognized diplomas in the rehabilitation of therapists..
Representative Soha Saeed expressed her optimism for the development of the file following Dr. Raghida Mohamed El-Gamil, Director of the Department of Addiction Treatment at the General Secretariat of Mental Health joined the meeting..
Meanwhile, Dr. Menen stressed the importance of concerted efforts between the various stakeholders for the benefit of patients, each within its competence, with integration in accordance with sound scientific methodologies..
This meeting comes within the framework of the coordination’s endeavor to continue working on the cultural justice file, which was launched by the forums in its first season, and of which the anti-addiction initiative was one of its pillars..
The meeting was attended by Representative Soha Saeed, Secretary of the Coordination and a member of the Senate, and Zoser Tito and Nevin Iskandar, members of the Coordination..
