The line will operate 24 hours a day throughout the national territory And it goes into operation on World Suicide Prevention Day. In September 2024, the Ministry of Health announced the creation of this free line, with More than 100 psychologists and care for 24 hours.
The national line for the prevention of suicide and self-harmful, free and operating 24 hours a day, operating on September 10, the government released this Thursday.
The line will operate 24 hours a day throughout the national territory And it goes into operation on September 10, World Suicide Prevention Day, you can read in the statement released at the end of the Council of Ministers.
In September 2024, the Ministry of Health announced the creation of this free line, with More than 100 psychologists and permanent care.
Speaking to the Lusa agency at the time, the Secretary of State for Health, Ana Povo, who remains in office in the current government, detailed that a working group was created to develop scientific and operational work to create this line.
According to Ana Povo, the working group involved elements of the National Coordination of Mental Health Policies, the State Secretariat of Health, the State Secretariat of Health Management and Shared Services of the Ministry of Health.
According to the law published in February 2024 in Diário da República, the line should provide counseling through voice and other communication platformsincluding by message and functioning with the use of Portuguese gesture language interpreters and foreign languages with expression in the national territory.
“Redirection requests for support for other public and private support lines and services, suitable for the specific case” is also part of the functionality of the service.
The law states that national line must be disclosed annuallythrough a national multimedia campaign, including regional and local audiovisual means, and “regularly and regularly and visibly in health facilities, prison establishments and educational centers, bodies and public services, schools and day centers, among other places taken by adequate”.
Data from In 2021, in Portugal, 934 suicide deaths and self -caused injuries were occurred in 2021, which corresponds to a total mortality rate of 9 per 100,000 inhabitants.
