A recent World Health Organisation (WHO) report has named Guyana as the country with the highest estimated suicide rate for 2012 but Minister of Health Dr Bheri Ramsaran says his ministry has long since recognised it as a problem and has been working towards addressing it.
In a press release on its first global report on suicide prevention published yesterday, the WHO said in the Americas, the average estimated suicide rate is 7.3 per 100,000 inhabitants, which is lower than in other WHO regions and lower than the global average of 11.4 per 100,000.
“However, Guyana has the highest estimated suicide rate for 2012 in the world, and Suriname has the sixth-highest,” the
