An offical explains a suicide prevention marketing campaign at Cheonggye Plaza in Jongno District, Seoul, Sept. 12. Yonhap
The Seoul metropolis authorities will greater than double the scale of its 24-hour name middle for folks battling suicidal impulses and set up community-based networks for these weak to suicide, aiming to scale back the suicide fee, officers mentioned Monday.
The plans had been unveiled because the Seoul metropolis authorities seeks to shift its suicide prevention coverage from focusing solely on these at excessive danger to addressing the broader public, with the aim of decreasing the town’s suicide fee by 50 % by 2030.
Final 12 months, the town recorded a suicide fee of 23.2 per 100,000 residents, the best fee since 2015.
Current findings present that 1 in 2 residents in Seoul contemplate themselves as psychologically troubled, whereas the proportion of people that have skilled emotions of melancholy rose by 1.9 proportion factors to eight.5 % over the previous 5 years.
Beneath the plans, the town plans to extend staffing at its 24-hour name middle, the Maumieum Counseling Phone, for these battling suicidal impulses from the present 12 to 30 by 2026.
Extra counseling channels can even be added, together with the KakaoTalk messenger service and a chatbot.
The town can even launch a community-based program that assigns group leaders, neighborhood medical doctors and retailer homeowners to proactively determine people at excessive danger of suicide and refer them to counseling companies for help.
The town can even set up a management tower for suicide prevention insurance policies, known as the “Seoul Metropolis Suicide Prevention Committee,” to extra intently analyze suicide-related statistics and conduct psychological post-mortem for suicides. (Yonhap)
