The Peruvian Ministry of Health (Minsa) announced a strategy to improve comprehensive mental health care.
Minsa's strategy is to standardize the provision of mental health services by telemedicine, which is why it has incorporated 29 Community Mental Health Centers (CSMC) into the National Telehealth Network (RNT). Likewise, they incorporated 23 Health Service Provider Institutions (Ipress) in 12 regions of the regional health directorates of South Lima.
The RNT is a set of public, private and mixed health establishments that offer remote health services through information technologies. In this way, the First Level Care Centers can communicate with hospitals and specialized institutions to achieve timely care in medical services.
In this sense, the Telemedicine Department will be able to collaborate with the new added centers for the articulation of a network of mental health services, the first level establishment, mental health hospitalization units and specialized services in addictions, sheltered homes, among others. .
The General Directorate of Telehealth, Reference and Emergencies (Digtel), informed that the 52 Ipress that will now be part of the RNT, will have the quality to improve their capacities in the work of their policies related to the digital agenda and the management of technologies .
This strategy becomes more important after the pandemic, the demand for mental health services grew exponentially and telemedicine has been implemented in various public health strategies. In addition, these types of services have been well received by the population.
Of the 52 Ipress, 12 belong to Piura, ten to Huánuco and seven to Puno, four to Junín, three to Cusco, two to Apurímac, Huancavelica, La Libertad, Amazonas, Lima Diris Sur, and one to Arequipa and Ucayali.
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