News & Updates

Ministry of Planning, Development & Special Initiatives

MHPSS: Referral Pathways

December 24, 2025

As part of the pilot implementation of the MHPSS service model, over a thousand cases have been submitted by the Hamdard workforce (at Tier 1) via the Hamdard Force mobile application in target districts in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Baltistan. One of the objectives of our community intervention is to develop referral pathways to connect persons with the MHPSS needs with relevant services.

Review meeting of MHPSS Implementation, Balochistan

December 15, 2025

A quarterly review meeting with key stakeholders was held in Quetta on December 11, 2025. The objective was to review MHPSS pilot implementation in Balochistan – results and challenges – and plan the next steps.

MHPSS Implementation Event KP

December 9, 2025

To mark the MHPSS pilot implementation in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, the Provincial Minister of Health, Mr. Khaleeq ur Rehman chaired a high-level event on 4th December 2025 in Peshawar.

Baltistan: Hamdard Force

November 27, 2025

As part of implementing MHPSS pilot service in Baltistan, and with the support of United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) Pakistan, a total of 70 community mental health workers have been registered and 55 have completed online Hamdard Force course to promote accessibility, acceptability, and scalability of mental healthcare at the level of the community in two target districts – Skardu (31) and Ghanche (39).

Baltistan: Building capacity of primary care physicians

November 21, 2025

As part of a MHPSS pilot implementation in Baltistan, a mhGAP training workshop was held in Skardu on 11th November – 15th November 2025. This was attended by seventeen primary care physicians and two clinical psychologists working in the primary healthcare facilities in the region.

Khyber Pakhtunkhwa: Building capacity of primary care physicians & clinical psychologists

November 18, 2025

As part of implementing MHPSS pilot services in two target districts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa - Haripur and Kohat – four training workshops have been conducted from September 2025 to October, 2025 to train 76 primary care physicians and 12 clinical psychologists to strengthen their capacity for managing common mental health conditions.