2024-01-19 09:57:18
Mona Zidane
Published on: Friday, January 19, 2024 – 11:56 AM | Last updated: Friday, January 19, 2024 – 11:56 AM
The Ministry of Health and Population announced that the Central Administration for Non-Governmental Treatment Institutions and Licensing and the General Secretariat of Mental Health, in coordination with the General Administration for Drug Control at the Ministry of Interior, carried out several campaigns to inspect licensed and unlicensed addiction treatment centers, within the framework of the directives of Dr. Khaled Abdel Ghaffar, Minister of Health and Population, on the necessity of Continuous inspection of private medical facilities, especially addiction treatment centers, to ensure implementation of technical and health requirements.
Dr. Hossam Abdel Ghaffar, the official spokesman for the Ministry of Health and Population, said that the number of centers that were visited during the year 2023 reached 205 centers, in the governorates of Cairo, Giza, Qalyubia, Sharqia, Gharbia, Ismailia, Dakahlia, and Alexandria, stressing that the primary goal of the inspection is to protect the patient from exploitation and practices. Wrong, and legalizing the conditions of places where patients are detained under the name of therapeutic places.
He pointed out that the violations that were monitored varied between management without a license, and violating licensing and infection control requirements, as all legal measures were taken once morest violators in those centers, including administrative closure of the facility and issuing warnings to avoid violations.
For his part, Dr. Hisham Zaki, Head of the Central Administration for Non-Governmental Treatment Institutions and Licensing, said that health care was provided to patients in those facilities, and they were directed to the hospitals of the General Secretariat for Mental Health and Addiction Treatment, in various governorates, according to geographical distribution, as the Secretariat provided a sufficient number of Beds for patients who wish to complete inpatient treatment or direct them to receive treatment in outpatient clinics, in the hospitals affiliated with the secretariat, which number 24 hospitals and centers. The therapeutic service is provided in accordance with internationally recognized scientific standards and under the umbrella of the Psychiatric Patient Care Law No. 71 of 2009 and its amendments No. 210 of 2020. .
It is worth noting that the Ministries of Health, Population, and Interior regularly inspect addiction treatment centers, as the number of centers visited annually is approximately 200 centers in various governorates.
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