{"id":66356,"date":"2026-10-02T06:17:22","date_gmt":"2026-10-02T06:17:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyspokesman.net\/live\/?p=66356"},"modified":"2026-10-02T06:17:22","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T06:17:22","slug":"pakistan-launches-national-mental-health-policy-2026-2035-at-global-mental-health-summit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyspokesman.net\/live\/2026\/10\/02\/pakistan-launches-national-mental-health-policy-2026-2035-at-global-mental-health-summit\/","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan Launches National Mental Health Policy 2026-2035 at Global Mental Health Summit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>City Desk<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Islamabad: The Government of Pakistan launched the National Mental Health Policy 2026-2035 at the Global Mental Health Summit, in partnership with WHO, UNICEF and the Global Institute of Human Development at Shifa Tameer-e-Millat University. The two-day summit, held from October 1-2 under the Ministry of National Health Services, brings together 800 in-person and online participants, including experts, academics, development partners and policymakers.<\/p>\n<p>WHO estimates that 32.4 million Pakistanis need mental health care, yet only about 5 percent have access to services, leaving a 95 percent treatment gap. Pakistan has about 0.19 psychiatrists per 100,000 people, compared with seven in high-income countries.<\/p>\n<p>Health Minister Mustafa Kamal called mental health a national emergency, a security issue and an economic issue. Minister of State Dr. Malik Mukhtar Ahmad Bharath said the government would work with provinces to deliver care through schools, primary healthcare and communities.<\/p>\n<p>WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said every dollar invested yields four in returns. UNICEF&#8217;s Pernille Ironside urged putting children and adolescents at the centre of efforts.<\/p>\n<p>Pakistan aims to make the summit its flagship global mental health platform.<\/p>\n<p>You didn&#8217;t include an instruction with this document. I assumed you wanted a summary, but I can adjust the length, write a different version, or turn it into a news story or social media post.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>City Desk Islamabad: The Government of Pakistan launched the National Mental Health Policy 2026-2035 at the Global Mental Health Summit, in partnership with WHO, UNICEF and the Global Institute of Human Development at Shifa Tameer-e-Millat University. The two-day summit, held from October 1-2 under the Ministry of National Health Services, brings together 800 in-person and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":66357,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[1753],"class_list":["post-66356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-national","tag-pakistan-launches-national-mental-health-policy-2026-2035-at-global-mental-health-summit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyspokesman.net\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66356","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyspokesman.net\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyspokesman.net\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyspokesman.net\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyspokesman.net\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66356"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dailyspokesman.net\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66356\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66359,"href":"https:\/\/dailyspokesman.net\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66356\/revisions\/66359"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyspokesman.net\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66357"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyspokesman.net\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyspokesman.net\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyspokesman.net\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}