Link for suicide prevention can be done for free in Brazil | Welfare

The Life Valuation Center (CVV) is a nonprofit civil society badociation that works on suicide prevention through volunteers who provide emotional support to all who want and need to speak. They receive adequate training and do not need training in psychology. All calls are confidential.

In a note to the G1, the CVV stated that it was trying to be free of calls for many years. There are some, the Ministry of Health understood that this bonus would be important for the reduction of suicide cases in the country and started the process.

"It is very important to facilitate access to the free suicide prevention service and emotional support for the entire Brazilian population Before 188, only the regions where there was one of the 90 CVV service centers had access to the telephone service, by paying the cost of the local connection.At today, from any municipality in the country, it is possible to connect, including cellular, to the CVV ", note the note.

This action is part of the ministry's plan to reduce suicide rates in Brazil by 10% by 2020.

11,000 suicides per year

Currently, the national average suicide is 5 , 5 cases every 100 000 inhabitants. According to data from the Ministry of Health, an average of 11,000 people take their own lives in Brazil each year.

When they are divided by age group, the indices in the elderly concern: 8.9 cases per 100 000 inhabitants in recent years. The six states with the highest suicide rates in the country are Rio Grande do Sul, Santa Catarina, Mato Grosso do Sul, Roraima, Piauí and Amazonas.