
August 14, 2026
The Ministry of Planning, Development and Special Initiatives has prioritised mental health within the national development agenda, a distinction shared by only a limited number of countries around the world. The 5Es framework is a strategic roadmap towards sustainable growth and economic stability, focusing on five critical pillars. A key pillar, Equity, addresses the fundamental issues of accessibility, inclusivity, and social justice in healthcare delivery and envisions MHPSS as a key area to focus on creating equitable access to mental health services for all population segments.
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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.
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July 10, 2026
As part of the MHPSS pilot implementation in Kohat & Haripur, and in collaboration with the DGHS Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, 76 doctors were trained in mhGAP-HIG in October 2025. They were supervised for a period of eight months. The trained doctors assessed and managed people with common mental disorders in their routine practice and were connected through the MHPSS web portal via mhGAP-HIG-PK mobile application, where they reported 627 cases and sought specialists’ supervision on 122 cases
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July 2, 2026
The fourth National MHPSS Coordination Meeting was held in Peshawar on 29th June 2026, chaired by Mr. Khaliq ur Rehman, Provincial Minister for Health, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. The Ministry of Planning, Development & Special Initiatives presented the report on the pilot implementation of MHPSS services in Haripur and Kohat, with stakeholders reaffirming commitment to strengthen evidence-based MHPSS services and develop sustainable plans to roll out the model to other districts.
Read moreMental Health Strategic Planning & Coordination Unit Health Section Ministry of Planning, Development & Special Initiatives