“Be responsible, be sensitive, and be educated,” doctors from the Philippine Psychiatric Association (PPA) told reporters and media personnel at a health forum on Tuesday regarding the proper reporting on suicide cases to different media outlets.

According to the World Health Organization (WHO)’s most recent data, around 804,000 suicide deaths worldwide were recorded in 2012.

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