The Cabinet of Ministers has created a council to be headed by psychologists and psychotherapists, but none of them have been included in it
A Coordination Council has been set up in Ukraine to provide psychological assistance to war victims . However, it did not include any specialists in this field, but only officials from various departments. On May 7, the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine approved the Resolution “On the Establishment of the Interdepartmental Coordination Council for Mental Health and Psychological Assistance to Victims of the Armed Aggression of the Russian Federation against Ukraine”
Of Ukraine Olena Zelenska. Its co-chairs will be Deputy Prime Minister, Minister for the Temporarily Occupied Territories Iryna Vereshchuk and Minister of Health Viktor Lyashko.
The tasks of the council will be to coordinate the executive bodies responsible for providing psychological assistance to war victims, finding solutions to any problems in this area and making proposals to improve the quality of this assistance.
I wonder how this will happen? This is of interest to psychologists, psychotherapists and psychiatrists, some of whom have been providing assistance to victims since 2014. After all, the new Interdepartmental Coordination Council does not include a single mental health specialist or a representative of a professional public organization. It is easy to coordinate what is done by the brains and hands of others. It is even easier to “coordinate” financial flows. How many trials does it take for the country to come to power: qualified and experienced specialists have to engage in certain activities.
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In addition to the already mentioned co-chairs, the commission included :
- Director General of the Directorate of Medical Services of the Ministry of Health Oleksandra Mashkevych;
- Head of the National Health Insurance Fund Natalia Husak;
- Deputy Minister for Veterans Affairs Inna Draganchuk;
- Deputy Minister of Digital Transformation for European Integration Valeria Ionan;
- Deputy Minister of Community and Territorial Development for European Integration Ihor Korkhovy;
- Deputy Minister of Social Policy Borys Lebedtsov;
- Plenipotentiary of the President of Ukraine for Barbarism Tatiana Lomakina;
- Deputy Minister of Defense Hanna Malyar;
- Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs Kateryna Pavlichenko;
- People's Deputy, Chairman of the Parliamentary Committee on National Health, Medical Care and Health Insurance Oleksandr Radutsky;
- Deputy Minister of Education and Science Vira Rohova;
- Deputy Head of the Office of the President of Ukraine Yulia Sokolovska.
It will be recalled that the European Commission has provided 9 million euros from its fund EU4Health on psychological assistance to refugees from Ukraine .
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