This unit has been set up to help establish an institutional framework and launch a coordinated effort to mainstream mental health as a national priority as envision in the National Economic Transformational Plan.









Mental Health and Psychosocial Support (MHPSS) service model is a digital, rights-based and scalable solution to address the critical gaps in existing mental healthcare and scale up MHPSS services in Pakistan. It aims to strengthen the existing mental healthcare system by utilizing evidence-based resources to build the capacity of a mental health workforce outside tertiary care hospitals; supervise this workforce to provide MHPSS services; establish a referral pathway; and collect relevant data.

July 23, 2026
All cases referred by the Hamdard Force from the community were assigned to the clinical psychologists through their dashboards on the MHPSS portal. The clinical psychologists, also trained in implementing mhGAP-Humanitarian Intervention guidelines, managed stress-related conditions and provided psychosocial interventions for other mental health conditions at Tier 2. They directed 277 cases to the MyCare+ mobile application. This application is part of the MHPSS service model, hybrid in approach and designed as a scalable intervention for stress management.
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July 17, 2026
As part of the pilot implementation of the Hamdard Force intervention (Tier 1) in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, 400 community mental health workers were trained in Haripur and Kohat to identify and refer people with MHPSS needs, through the Hamdard Force mobile application, which is integrated with the MHPSS web-portal. At Tier 2, a team of clinical psychologists supervised the members of Hamdard Force and assessed the referred cases.
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July 14, 2026
During the pilot implementation in the districts of Haripur and Kohat, 76 trained physicians integrated mental healthcare into their routine practice and reported 627 patients through the mhGAP mobile application. The pilot was implemented in a complex humanitarian setting marked by security concerns, emergency responses, and overlapping public health campaigns. The operational challenges included the availability of trainers, selection of primary care physicians, connectivity issues, and heavy workloads of primary care physicians.
Read moreComprehensive evidence-based printed and digital resources have been developed for MHPSS services in Pakistan. Through robust methodological frameworks, well-established international guidelines were contextualized, adapted and translated to achieve the objectives of MHPSS service.



Mental Health Strategic Planning & Coordination Unit Health Section Ministry of Planning, Development & Special Initiatives