A total of 27 suicides were registered last year, Health Minster Louis Deguara told Adrian Vassallo (MLP) in reply to a parliamentary question yesterday.

There were eight cases of attempted suicide between January and November 2007 and 216 drug overdose cases which could have been accidental or intentional.

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