Topic: Expanding Mental Health Resources
Country: Egypt
Delegate Name: Robert Janes
School: East Grand Rapids High School
Topic page: background guide and all position papers All Egypt position papers GLIMUN 2018 committees
Mental Health is an issue all across the world. In Egypt, most of our funding towards mental health goes to larger physiatric hospitals. Even though there are large hospitals dedicated to helping those with mental health issues, it still isn’t enough. Quite often there is not any room in the hospitals, as more than half the capacity of the hospitals is filled with long-stay patients. Egypt realizes that mental health is an issue not very easy to address, as it is quite often hard to spot mental health issues. Egypt also realizes that historically mental health has not been viewed as an issue, and would like this to change. Combating mental health is quite the task. Egypt would urge the WHO to continue to support the WHO Mental Health Action Plan as it is a step in the right direction. Egypt would also like to see more resources devoted to normalizing mental health care. As of now, mental health care is still seen as a specialized sector, but Egypt realizes that the integration of mental health care into normal health care will be quite beneficial. Egypt hopes that member nations of the WHO will be able to realize that mental health care is quite a pressing issue and would treat it as such. Egypt hopes that WHO will be able to pass a resolution that would expand the resources going towards mental health care, and the training of mental health care specialists. If both of these actions are taking it would be quite beneficial to the global community, as mental health can affect anyone and is not a regional issue.
