Sunday 16/Mar/2025 – 10:27 AM
The Ministry of Health and Population has announced the provision of awareness to 183 thousand citizens, from the targeted groups, to raise the level of awareness among adolescents and youth, through the awareness seminars and activities organized by the Ministry, as part of a campaign “estimated from others”, in its eleventh year in a row, which aims to educate students and youth against the dangers of abuse and addiction, according to the directives of Dr. Khaled Abdel Ghaffar, Minister of Health and Population.
Dr. Hossam Abdel Ghaffar, the official spokesman for the Ministry of Health and Population, said that seminars and activities were organized through the Department of Addiction Treatment, Administration of Children and Adolescents, at the General Secretariat of Mental Health and Addiction Treatment, and youth targeted government and private universities, schools, the Al -Azhar institutes and churches, youth centers, and clubs, for 20 days in 21 governorates.
He pointed out that the campaign comes as an extension of cooperation between many bodies and bodies, including the Ministry of Education and Technical Education, the Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research, the Ministry of Youth and Sports, the General Authority for Investment and Free Zones and a number of deputies, and many other partner parties in addition to cooperation with Al -Amal schools for hearing impaired in South Sinai Governorate, and providing awareness to students through the reference translator in cooperation with the psychological specialist.
For her part, Dr. Menin Abdel -Maksoud, Secretary -General of the General Secretariat of Mental Health and Addiction Treatment, said that the campaign presented 2228 educational seminars, in addition to training and qualifying cadres of various entities, to implement the specially prepared awareness content to suit the teenagers category, and it is presented in the form of various activities that suit their needs and help in their awareness and teach them skills that help them and protect them from the dangers of abuse And addiction.
Dr. Menn from Abdel -Maqsoud indicated that the campaign was launched through the hospitals of the General Secretariat for Mental Health and Addiction Treatment, at the level of the governorates of the Republic, where the Secretariat organized many recreational, cultural, artistic, sports and religious activities within the hospitals and centers of the secretariat and outside it through the role of culture and sports clubs.
