Ulaanbaatar
Crucial IT and medical furniture equipment handed over to National Center for Mental Health
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Ulaanbaatar/MONTSAME/. The ‘Strengthening health systems capacity in response to COVID-19 outbreak in Mongolia’ project supported by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID Mongolia) and the World Health Organization (WHO) handed over crucial IT and medical furniture equipment to the Ministry of Health’s National Center for Mental Health to improve COVID-19 related mental health and psychological counselling. The equipment will be distributed to psychological counselling units in nine District Health Centers in Ulaanbaatar.
The handover ceremony took place today at the National Center
for Mental Health and was attended by Dr G. Gankhuyag, Director, Division of
Non-communicable Diseases prevention and control, Ministry of Health, Dr V.
Bayarmaa, Acting Director, National Center for Mental Health, Dr Ts. Undral,
Director, Division of Public Health, Ulaanbaatar City Health Department, Mr.
Thomas P. Crehan, Senior Development Advisor, USAID/Mongolia and Dr S.
Bolormaa, Technical Officer for NCDs, WHO CO Mongolia.
Source: WHO Mongolia
