Egypt’s Minister of Health and Population and Deputy Prime Minister for Human Development, Khaled Abdel Ghaffar, has urged the international community to translate global commitments on mental health into concrete national actions. He made the call during the opening session of the Sixth Global Ministerial Mental Health Summit, held in Doha under the theme “From Global Commitment to National Action.”
Abdel Ghaffar described the recent UN General Assembly high-level meeting on non-communicable diseases (NCDs) and mental health as a “turning point,” noting that for the first time, mental health was explicitly recognised within the NCD agenda as a fundamental pillar of public health and sustainable development.
