Gusinjac: System Provides Adequate Treatment for Children with Mental Disorders

By , 15 Jan 2019, 16:31 PM Lifestyle
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The Montenegrin healthcare system provides adequate therapy and treatment for children with mental disorders, said Mevlida Gusinjac, Director the Directorate for Health Protection at the Ministry of Health.

In the Mental Health Report in Montenegro, the Ombudsperson stated that children with mental disorders do not exercise the right to complete, adequate and quality healthcare.

Gusinjac said that in Montenegro, within the health institutions at the primary level of health care and in the Clinical Center of Montenegro (KCCG), the treatment of children with mental disorders is organized.

According to her, numerous activities are being carried out in order to provide the conditions for organizing the services, i.e. the construction of the Clinic for psychiatry within the KCCG, which will include the department of child psychiatry. "Until the construction of this clinic, the health care system, as mentioned, provides adequate therapy and treatment for children with mental disorders," Gusinjac told MINA.

She pointed out that the Ministry of Health, as an imperative and an important challenge, recognized the care of children with psychiatric disorders.

"As it is a very sensitive category of population, very carefully, primarily systemically, we tend to provide adequate conditions for the medical treatment that is necessary for them," emphasized Gusinjac.

She explained that the first check-ups, for the detection and recognition of psychiatric disorders in a child, are performed by selected pediatricians in health centers. "They evaluate the mental development and mental maturity of children through ten preventive examinations in the first, second, fourth year of life, as well as before going to elementary school, in the second, fourth, sixth and ninth grade of the primary school, as well as in the first and third grade of the high school," Gusinjac explained.

Also, she adds, in the centers for children with special needs within the health centers there is a team of specially trained and educated pediatricians and psychologists, as well as a speech therapist and physiatrist.

Gusinjac pointed out that the Youth Counseling also works in health centers with participation of the selected pediatrician, psychologist and psychiatrist.

According to her, a psychiatrist for adults, as well as a child psychiatrist from Belgrade, was engaged in the KCCG Children's Institute, due to the lack of child psychiatrists. "So that children with mental disorders are provided with adequate and high-quality health care," Gusinjeć emphasized. As she explained, the decision on treatment is made by the whole team.  

"A psychiatrist and a clinical psychologist, and if the need for additional treatments is required, the KCCG Psychiatric Clinic sends patients to the Institute of Mental Health or the Children's Clinic for Psychiatry in Belgrade, with which the Health Insurance Fund has concluded a treaty on providing the treatment," said Gusinjac.

She said that three Clinical Psychologists are working at the Clinical Psychiatric Clinic of the Clinical Center (KCG), while specialists of children's psychiatry who come from Belgrade have been engaged in the Center for Autism and are conducting examinations on the weekends.

"Currently there are three Doctors of Medicine specializing in child psychiatry and one psychologist specializing in clinical psychology, which will, after their completed education, improve the provision of health care for children with psychiatric disorders," Gusinjac said.

She stated that at present there are no registers of children with developmental disabilities and mental disorders.

Gusinjac explained that children's and young people's registers with psychophysical developmental disorders and psychosocial disorders, for the growth and development of children and youth, for psychoses, for personnel in the healthcare system and for institutions, are expected to be developed in the course of March.

Text by MINA News, on January 13th 2019, read more at Vijesti

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