Linus Atarah
Mental Illness Emerges as Unseen Killer
Mental Illness Emerges as Unseen Killer
About 58,000 people kill themselves every year in the EU. This compares with around 50,700 deaths a year currently in road accidents and 5,350 in murder or homicide. "Europe is at the forefront of global mental illness," said Benedetto Saraceno, director of mental health and substance abuse at WHO. "However, the army to face this is rather poor."