They ask the county council to prepare a regional mental health plan

Elkarrekin Podemos IU demands Alava County Council to Create and implement a regional mental health plan within its mandate And in coordination with the rest of the institutions concerned to reduce the impact of social determinants on the population.

This request was included in the proposal that the Alliance Registered this Thursday in public meetings Urge the provincial council to implement a series of comprehensive measures to improve the mental health of citizens through a regional plan aimed at preventing and eliminating risk factors and determinants that affect and exacerbate this problem.

Juntero’s group spokesman, David Rodriguez, has been warning for months from Alva’s public associations that the current health crisis has increased Mental illness of the population, with a steady increase in disorders such as anxiety, depression, suicides, especially among the younger ones, or symptoms of post-traumatic stress, as also reflected in the various studies conducted in the Basque Country.

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“We have suffered severe mental health crisis It has only gotten worse since the arrival of the coronavirus, already in July of last year from Elkarrekin Podemos IU, we have asked the county government to put in place concrete measures to try
The mitigation of this serious crisis in parallel with the epidemic”, emphasizes Rodriguez.

They mentioned from Elkarrekin Podemos IU that since before the pandemic, mental health care services have been provided A structural deficiency in our system, as the Ombudsman pointed out in 2020, denouncing that there are only six public health psychologists for every 100,000 inhabitants,
Which is barely a third of the European average. Furthermore, in the Basque Country, the proportion of psychologists per population is lower than the national average, at 5.7 per 100,000 inhabitants.