Francisco Sampaio, a researcher at CINTESIS – Center for Health Technology and Services Research, has penned an opinion article in the newspaper Público, in which he reflects on the test that the pandemic of COVID-19 represents for the mental health of the Portuguese people.
“In a country with chronic underinvestment in the area of mental health, in which around 65% of the cases of illness are untreated and which annually cause losses of more than 300 million euros in the economy, there is an urgent need of focus on hiring human resources and in the development of a true model of community intervention,” writes the specialist nurse in Mental Health.
Read more (in Portuguese).