Design suicide prevention strategy now

“While a lot of countries have a national strategy in place for tackling suicide, Botswana does not. In its corporate strategic plan, the Ministry of Health does not even have any objective or initiative about suicide. Suicide in the country is still viewed largely as a law enforcement issue to be dealt with by the police and not as a public health  -or mental health - problem, which should be the case. We need resolve at national level to ensure a coordinated approach if we are to have any chance of bringing down the statistics” he stated then.

We agree with Dr Thula.