Education on mental health issues needed


THERE has been an average of almost four suicide cases a day in the first three months of 2021, totalling up to 336 cases reported to the police.

As revealed by Health director- general Tan Sri Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah, this is more than half of what was reported throughout 2020. Last year saw 631 suicide cases recorded, an increase from the 609 recorded in all of 2019.

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