This year’s budget will include special funding for Guyana’s suicide prevention efforts, according to Minister of Public Health Dr George Norton.
In an invited comment yesterday, Norton explained that this decision was reached at a Cabinet meeting held on Saturday last.
The funds, which will form part of the budget for the Ministry of Public Health, will be available for use by any of the ministries and other stakeholders that form part of a recently-constituted partnership to address suicide prevention. “As long as you have a programme which is in line with our suicide prevention plan and its proposed impact can be justified, then