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Minister of Health to Al Sabah: A national fund for the treatment and rehabilitation of drug addicts
Iraq 12/02/2024
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Minister of Health to Al-Sabah: The new strategy focuses on rehabilitating addicts and subjecting them to a rehabilitation program, highlighting the problems of addicts, finding solutions, and addressing the dangers of drugs.
The Minister of Health and Chairman of the Supreme National Authority for Narcotics and Psychotropic Substances, Dr. Saleh Mahdi Al-Hasnawi, announced
that the national strategy to combat drugs in Iraq for the years 2024-2030 has begun to bear fruit, especially since its most prominent paragraphs are fortifying society, treating addicts, reducing trade and smuggling, establishing modern rehabilitation centers and hospitals, and creating a national fund for the treatment and rehabilitation of addicts.
Al-Hasnawi told Al-Sabah: "The strategy focuses on rehabilitating addicts and subjecting them to a rehabilitation program, highlighting the problems of addicts, finding solutions, and addressing the dangers of drugs."
Al-Hasnawi explained that "the ministry opened centers for treating addicts, namely Al-Shifa and Al-Ataa in Baghdad and Al-Hayat in Diwaniyah, in addition to preparing a plan to open five government centers as a first stage in the governorates, as well as granting licenses to the private health sector to establish and open centers for treating addicts."
He pointed out that "the medical, nursing and health support staff were assigned to follow up on the cases of addicts in detention centers and treat them."
He explained that "the strategy included a number of recommendations for the health axis, including building hospitals to treat and rehabilitate addicts, in addition to establishing new centers in the governorates of Nineveh, Najaf, Dhi Qar and the Kurdistan Region over the next five years, in addition to developing a unified training program with multiple specialties in one of the regional centers, with the addition of a guide for treating addiction and accompanying psychological disorders by doctors specialized in this field, in addition to building rehabilitation centers for women like men by the Ministries of Interior and Justice, and centers for testing poisons and detecting drugs in the main hospitals in Baghdad and the governorates."
Al-Hasnawi added: “The strategy also includes establishing a national fund for the treatment and rehabilitation of addicts, which will be at the disposal of the ministry, to support treatment centers. A committee will be formed to study the proposal within a period of three months for approval.”
For her part, the representative of the Advisory Board, Hams Ali, told Al-Sabah: The new strategy for the years 2024-2030 was prepared based on the directives of the Prime Minister and the Narcotics Law No. 50 of 2017.
She noted that meetings and seminars were held with the participation of the House of Representatives, the Council of Ministers, the Presidency of the Republic, unions and international organizations. A document was presented during the current year for approval and referral to the Ministerial Council for Human Development, then it was referred to the Legal Committee of the Council of Ministers and the Prime Minister. The National Committee in the Ministries of Interior and Health was also directed to begin implementing it. The most important foundations and principles were adopted in preparing the strategy, focusing on the preventive aspect and the challenges causing the spread of drugs, the huge losses resulting from them, combating and treating all points of entry, spread, trade and drug use and saving society from their dangers and effects through the efforts of the intelligence services, with health, social, educational and mobilization institutions, the family and the citizen.
She stated that the strategy addressed four main objectives, including immunizing society from the scourge of drugs, raising the level of immunity and prevention, treating addicts and rehabilitating them socially, reducing drug trade, smuggling and abuse, and achieving the greatest cooperation between governmental and non-governmental agencies and Arab and international bodies in order to combat them.
She added that in order to achieve the aforementioned objectives, five axes must be achieved; namely legislation and laws, security and intelligence requirements, health care and community rehabilitation, community mobilization, education and prevention, and Arab, regional and international cooperation.
In turn, the Director of the Media Department of the General Directorate of Narcotics Affairs at the Ministry of Interior, Hussein Youssef, said: "The Narcotics Affairs Directorates in Baghdad, the governorates, the Kurdistan Region and the security services were able during the years 2023-2024 to seize approximately 17 tons of various types of drugs, and arrest 14,235 people involved in drug trade and smuggling crimes and refer them to the judiciary."
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