Taif Mental Health Hospital has prevented over 120 suicides in its fifty years of care, with suicidal tendencies afflicting around 70 percent of the center's patients, authorities at the hospital have said. During the same period, only three patients have managed to commit suicide. Dr. Rajab Abdul Kareem Brisali, Director of the hospital, has spoken to refute suggestions that a lack of sufficient care for patients was causing high suicide rates at the hospital. “Suicidal tendencies in patients suffering from depression are at around 20 percent, 70 percent in psychiatric patients, and 20 percent in schizophrenic patients,” Dr. Brisali said. “Yet there have only been three suicides at the hospital throughout the past 50 years of its inception.” The figures, he said, served to show the full care and attention that patients receive from the staff at the hospital. Dr. Brisali attributes suicidal tendencies to patients' feelings of isolation and rejection by society at large after being forgotten by family and relatives who fail to visit them for years on end.