- Overcrowded wards in psychiatric hospitals, shortages of medical staff, and tragic statistics that say the number of suicides by the youngest is steadily rising are more than warning signs. They are a diagnosis that we have really little time left if we want to avoid an epidemic of mental and psychological illnesses," says Supreme Audit Office Chairman Marian Banaś.
It is estimated that each year nearly 40 percent of Europeans face conditions of this mental nature. The scale of psychiatric and psychological illnesses in children and adolescents does not portend a change in this trend, and in fact suggests that it is growing. Data obtained by the NIK from the police show that over the past five years, the number of deaths from suicide attempts in the under-18 age group has in...
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