Fortis launches workplace mental health programme to deal with distress

Initiative provides counselling, webinars to create a culture of openness and acceptance about mental health and real-time text chat support by a team of psychologists

Now you can chat with a psychologist real-time from your workplace if you're distressed. Fortis National Mental Health Program has launched a workplace mental health initiative to provide evidence-based mental health solutions to corporate organisations.

"The Workplace Mental Health Program provides for mental health counselling of employees of different organisations, webinars to create a culture of openness and acceptance about mental health in the organisations. A key feature of this initiative is the provision of additional real-time text chat support for individuals in distress, by a team of expert psychologists," Fortis said in a statement.

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