The Generalitat Valenciana has presented this Monday its Valencian Mental Health and Addictions Plan 2024-2027, a program endowed with 283 million euros of which the largest amounts are allocated to the care and equitable model based on the real needs of the population (86 .1 million) and care for children and adolescents (70.4 million). In total, with this Plan, the Valencian Government will allocate 724 million euros to mental health during this legislature
The Minister of Health, Marciano Gómez, presented the Plan this afternoon, accompanied by the head of the Autonomous Office of Mental Health and Addictions of the Valencian Community, Bartolomé Pérez Gálvez, who pointed out that “in mental health the problem is over. game of ideologies”.
President Carlos Mazón concluded the event, highlighting that this was one of his electoral commitments. Likewise, Mazón has highlighted that this represents an increase of 13.4% and that it adds an extra 13 million euros for the provision of professional resources.
For the head of the Consell “the data are terrible and cannot be hidden” and he regrets, for example, that the Valencian Community is the autonomous community with the worst average number of schoolchildren participating in prevention programs per educational center. According to the figures provided, it is also one of the autonomous communities with the worst resources and the third in specialist training per inhabitants.
“We are the third community with the lowest rate of specialists in training and this is something fundamental; it is not an economic issue, it is that there are no resources and we will not have them in decades,” said Pérez Gálvez, who has outlined the different parts of a transversal plan in which the areas of Education and Social Services are involved.
For his part, Councilor Gómez has highlighted that the plan will work on prevention and has defended that “we have to prevent the potential emergence of a mental health illness.” And according to official data presented by the minister, the mental health risk is around 40% according to the “Mental Health Survey.”
Before the presentation of the Plan, the president of the Generalitat, Carlos Mazón, had visited the Padre Jofré Hospital in València, a center specialized in mental health, the first psychiatric hospital center built in Europe.
