· The government delegate in Cantabria participated in Santander in the event for the International Day of Mental Health organized by the entities ASCASAM, Proyecto Hombre, Fundación Acora and Hermanas Hospitalarias

· He recalled that the Government of Spain has promoted the Action Plan 2025-2027 and line 024 against suicide that has answered 2,500 calls from Cantabria in three years

The government delegate in Cantabria, Pedro Casares, has highlighted the commitment of the Government of Spain to the care and prevention of mental health and has valued the work shared with the autonomous communities and municipalities to provide solutions.

Casares has praised that mental health has become “at the top of the public agenda”, which is “key” to “making policies to combat and protect” problems or diseases.

The government delegate participated this Friday in the event organized in the square of the City of Santander by the Asociación Cántabra Pro Salud Mental (ASCASAM), Proyecto Hombre and the Acordos and Hermanas Hospitalarias foundations on the occasion of the International Day for Mental Health, which is commemorated this October 10.

The representative of the State in Cantabria thanked the work carried out by these four entities for the “commitment and affection” with which they carry out their daily work of caring for “all the people who need it and who often suffer in silence”.

He has indicated that the Government of Spain, “with citizen commitment and associations”, has promoted the Mental Health Action Plan 2025-2027 endowed with 100 million euros and the Line 024 of attention to suicide behaviors that, in the last three years, since 2022, has attended 2,500 calls from Cantabria.

On the Mental Health Plan, he has detailed that he seeks to place the patient in the center, ensure continuity of care and home care. It also aims to improve the working conditions and capacities of professionals by giving them more time and resources to exercise their competences, and prepare Primary Care for the challenges of the coming decades by expanding diagnostic procedures and renewing equipment and infrastructures.

“We have to work all public administrations, at any level of administration, to provide solutions,” said the government delegate, who has praised the work shared between the governments of Spain and Cantabria and the municipalities to “protect” those who have mental health problems.

Casares, like the organizing entities, has indicated that “the pandemic, job insecurity, isolation, unwanted loneliness, catastrophes or emergencies have hit many people hard” in our country and “this affects the mental health, especially of many young people and elderly people”.

For this reason, it has opted to provide “integral solutions” through public policies. “This is not only going to solve it in the consultations, it is also going to protect with programs in the schools, to take care in the work fighting the precariousness and the long days or to combat the unwanted loneliness from our neighborhoods,” he added.