Dr. Rania Zakaria, Director General of the General Department of Mental Health at the Ministry of Health, said that the online mental health platform provides consultations and doctors’ appointments, and there is also an outpatient clinic, and reservations with doctors are made through the platform and the platform is available to Egyptians at home and abroad, and entry is free.
He added, during an intervention on the program From Egypt, broadcast on CBC channel with the media, Amr Halil: From the month of March, we have observed an increase in the number of users of the platform, and mental illness faces stigma and we are ashamed to go to a psychiatrist. There are virtual clinics through which psychological counseling is provided, and reservations are made with a psychiatrist if the patient wants to continue with the platform.
We have reached more than 43 thousand visitors, and those who registered their names are more than 17 thousand, and the currency of the questionnaire is more than 16 thousand, and those who have booked sessions are 2047, and the platform provides service in all specialties for sick elderly adolescents.
And she continued: 22 clinics specialized in women’s mental health were opened, and the most symptoms are depression, pregnancy and postpartum depression, and the Egyptian woman is by nature a burden, and when a woman goes to the doctor from a complaint of an organic disease, the cause is psychological, and the second symptom is violence, as many women are subjected to violence .