Rate may be down but officials appeal to public to take greater care of vulnerable friends and neighbours.
suicide prevention
A professor at the Faculty of Social Sciences and Education of the private University of Saint Joseph (USJ) has revealed that according to the Catholic university’s recent research, 40% of its respondents suffer from different levels of depression, adding that 10% of them said that they had had suicidal thoughts.
Alexis Tam assured lawmakers that the government was working to prevent suicide, although he admitted that many cases were unpreventable.
Macau recorded 29 cases of death by suicide during the first six months, a 9.4% year-on-year decrease.
Caritas Macau’s English-language suicide prevention hotline, which was launched in mid-June, receives at least two calls a day, Paul Pun Chi Meng, secretary general of the Roman-Catholic welfare organisation, said on Sunday. Speaking on the sidelines of an award ceremony in Praça do Tap Seac, Pun said he believed that local non-Chinese speakers’ demand for […]
