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With Guyana registering the highest suicide rate and Essequibo simultaneously leading the other nine Regions with alarming figures, members of “G” Division, Pomeroon/Supenaam and a team of doctors from the Ministry of Health, hosted a forum proposing initiatives while offering recommendations to address and deal with suicides and attempted suicide cases.The discussion targeted police officers, religious leaders and members of the community. Emerging from the Friday discussions, members of the Ministry of Health divulged that the Commissioner of Police would be setting up suicide prevention hotlines along with the Ministry of Health which would form the National Suicide Prevention Plan.While the hotline would be established in Georgetown,jerseys nfl wholesale, personnel would be trained in Essequibo to be the first responders. The plan is to effect a twenty-four hour service with the implementation of five telephone lines.In the interest of training persons, individuals would encourage suspected suicidal cases to seek immediate assistance,wholeslae cheap nfl jerseys china, as well as attempt to counsel persons who are either displaying addictive behavioral pattern or alarming or unusual impulsive attitudes.Likewise,wholesale jerseys, those trained people would have to exercise patience and attempt to connect with vulnerable,cheap nfl jerseys china, or those persons who are exhibiting suicidal tendencies.Previously,cheap nfl jerseys online, the team that comprised Dr. Bhiro Harry, MD; Jorge Balseiro MD; Leslyn Holder-Nurse and Caitlin Vieira,wholesale jerseys china, BA, MSc. hosted a three-day training programme in Georgetown.Emerging from Friday’s discussion,cheap nfl jerseys, it was noted that a lot of young Essequibians, who either are confronted by financial,cheap jerseys nfl wholesale, emotional or abusive problems, are more often than not, prone to commit suicide. “Every suicide is one too much.”In the case of the elderly, loneliness or depression might be factors.For this year alone, a number of Essequibians have taken their lives. Recently, an 18-year-old Jibb teenager took her own life by ingesting a quantity of gramoxone. The girl who was hospitalized at the Oscar Joseph hospital for 19 days was said to be experiencing problems with her boyfriend. (Yannason Duncan) |
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