Promised in July 2020 as part of the “Ségur de la santé”, the new national suicide prevention number will come “into operation” this Friday, the Minister of Health, Olivier Véran announced on Monday.

"Free, accessible 7 days a week and 24 hours a day, from all over the country, this number will provide an immediate response to people in mental distress and at risk of suicide", declared Olivier Véran at the opening of the Assises de la mental health and psychiatry.

Our society must operate a revolution: stop seeing mental health as a curious or shameful object, while 2 in 3 French people will suffer from a mental disorder in their lifetime.

It is this new perspective that will animate the foundations of mental health and psychiatry.

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- Olivier Véran (@olivierveran) September 27, 2021

"Provide responses adapted to any situation"

"At the end of the line, health professionals, trained, mobilized, in conjunction with healthcare stakeholders in each territory, will be able to provide responses adapted to any situation," he added.

This new toll-free number should complement the VigilanS “reminder and follow-up system for people who have attempted suicide”, created in 2015 in Hauts-de-France.

To date "deployed in 12 out of 13 metropolitan regions and in two overseas regions, it will be in all regions before the end of this year," said the minister, specifying that "nearly 15,000 patients "Used it in 2020 and already" 10,000 at the beginning of June of this year ".

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