Government wants to strengthen responses in the area of ​​child psychiatry – Reuters

                 

                         
                     

                         

                 

 
                         

The Secretary of State for Health, Fernando Leal da Costa, said on Friday in Coimbra who wants to strengthen the capacity of intervention and hospitalization in child psychiatry, considering that there is “a lack of resources” in this area.

                     

                          The Government has “awareness of the need for mental health intervention in the newer”, with a specialty for which the country was “not able to create the necessary professionals,” said Fernando Leal da Costa at the opening session of commemoration of World Mental Health Day, the Theatre Around St. Bernard, in Coimbra.

“a stronger, more effective and competent intervention in children and adolescents is needed,” said emphasizing that the promotion of mental health and prevention of disorders also “wins an early intervention.” Existing resources “are manifestly few to the identified needs”, and the ability to intervene and internment “limited”, he noted, stressing the importance “to form the largest possible number” of child psychiatrists.

President Hospital and the University Center of Coimbra (chug), José Martins Nunes, also present at the ceremony, provides that “within three months” is possible to provide the chug of a child psychiatry inpatient service and urgency, “serving the children of the region center “. “There is a doctor working out of you interested in working in Coimbra region, are to be processed by two processes of public interest yield two child psychiatrists and, in January, we will have another specialist formed in our hospital,” he said.

Speaking to journalists, José Martins Nunes explained that the inpatient and emergency service will be integrated in the Pediatric Hospital of Coimbra in currently unoccupied area, predicting that at the beginning the service is equipped with ten beds. According to the president of the board of Chuc, “there has never been in inpatient child psychiatry” in Coimbra. José Alberto Garrido, director of child psychiatry service Chuc, stressed that until now the children “or are in the emergency room or go to Porto or go home.”