Reus City Council has promoted a new citizen service to prevent and improve the mental health and emotional well-being of the population.
Starting November 16, anyone can call 977 010 679, where a psychologist will listen to them and guide them towards one of the municipal services already offered.
The Councilor for Health, Enrique Martín, has highlighted that the first phase of the project focuses on "detection and prevention", while in the second the aim is to create a network with different professionals in the sector to achieve "a more direct channel".
The service is born from a citizen demand, as well as from the latest data from the Health Department, which shows that one in four people has emotional discomfort.
The mayor of Reus, Sandra Guaita, has stressed that although the City Council's powers in the field of health "are few", the government team has wanted to "make a small turning point" to change the municipal approach in around mental health and "giving an outlet" to a topic that "has existed all our lives and has been stigmatized for many years."
The Health Councilor of the Reus City Council, Enrique Martín, has followed the same line, stating that the project "is being built by walking", since despite being defined, it will be developed in phases and will be modified in depending on how it evolves.
At the moment, this month of November, the council has hired a psychologist who will be in charge of taking calls from users every Monday from 12 to 3 p.m., on Wednesdays from 4 to 6:30 p.m. and on Fridays from 9 a.m. to 12 p.m.
"This telephone service aims to give a hand to that person who is drowning and give them a little light and guidance on where they can go," added Martín.
