The Ministry of Health and Population announced an increase in the number of medical facilities licensed to treat People with mental illness and addiction patients, which are restricted to 167 facilities in all regional councils of the National Council for Mental Health, in addition to inspecting 36 new facilities, until the end of the first half of 2022 .
Hossam Abdel Ghaffar, the official spokesman for the Ministry of Health and Population, confirmed the increase in the number of specialist doctors and consultants who applied for registration, and were registered in the records of the National Council for Mental Health to 695, and the number of inspection doctors in the regional councils for mental health increased to 72 doctors..
For her part, Dr. Manal Al-Attar, head of the central administration of the technical secretariat of the National Council for Mental Health, said that the council organized 9 workshops and awareness seminars, in addition to 27 training courses, targeting 652 trainees of mental health doctors, in addition to holding periodic meetings with patient rights committees in the facilities. governmental and private, to ensure that patients’ rights are fully implemented.
Al-Attar confirmed that the response rate for examining complaints received by the General Administration for the Care of the Rights of the Psychiatric Patient, as well as those received with the unified government complaints system, reached 100%, and the General Administration for the Care of the Rights of the Psychiatric Patient carried out 84 visits to psychiatric facilities..
She indicated that the inspection campaigns organized by the National Council for Mental Health, in conjunction with the General Administration for Narcotics Control, succeeded in closing 18 work centers without a license, noting that the total number of serious violations that were referred to the judicial authorities urgently amounted to 12..