Suicide Hotlines and Crisis Lines in Qatar

A helpline is a place to talk to someone when you are struggling, before or instead of a crisis. The lines on this page are answered by clinicians or trained advisers, depending on the service. If you are not in Qatar, the worldwide list is organised by country.

What you share is kept private in almost all cases; if a counsellor believes a life is in immediate danger, they may arrange urgent help. What each service costs, and who it is for, is set out beside it below in the operating organisation's own words.

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CRISIS LINES, SUICIDE HOTLINES, AND HELPLINES IN QATAR

Each number below was checked in August 2026 at the operating organisation's own website, or at the government ministry page that runs the service.

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Emergency numbers, and what each one is for

National Mental Health Helpline, 16000 option 4

AMAN Centre 919, for women and children affected by violence

While you are waiting to be answered

If you are worried about someone else

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Emergency numbers, and what each one is for

Qatar uses one number for every emergency. The Ministry of Interior publishes 999 for police, ambulance and fire together, operating "round the clock", with staff fluent in "English, French, Chinese, Filipino, Urdu".

Police, ambulance and fire: 999

999 is also the route the health ministry itself gives for a mental health emergency. The Ministry of Public Health's mental health portal directs anyone needing immediate help and an ambulance to "call 999".

If you are deaf or hard of hearing: 992

The ministry publishes 992 as the emergency service for deaf and hard-of-hearing callers. It can be reached by video call from a computer or mobile phone, by SMS, or by email.

There is no separate three-digit national suicide line in Qatar. The national mental health entry point is 16000 option 4, described next.

National Mental Health Helpline, 16000 option 4

The National Mental Health Helpline, in Arabic خط المساعدة الوطني للصحة النفسية, is Qatar's national telephone entry point to mental health support. It is operated by Hamad Medical Corporation's (HMC) Mental Health Service.

HMC describes it as a "fully confidential, rapid response service to support anyone needing professional mental health support, irrespective of age, gender, background or nationality". On who answers, HMC says "Experienced mental health professionals including nurses, psychologists, psychiatrists and allied health professionals, are on hand to offer confidential, specialized mental health support to all callers".

Tel: 16000, then, in HMC's wording, "choose option 4 for Mental Health".

Hours: "The Helpline is available from 8am to 6pm Saturday to Thursday", per HMC's April 2026 statement. It is closed on Fridays and it is not a round-the-clock line. Older official pages publish longer hours for this line; HMC's most recent statement is the one above, so do not count on an answer outside it.

Cost: free. HMC states the line "offers confidential, free, and professional support for all residents of Qatar".

Languages: in HMC's words, "our team is multi-lingual and fluent in Arabic, English, Tagalog, Hindi, Urdu, and Malayalam". Qatar's population comes from many countries, and this line is published for all of them.

AMAN Centre 919, for women and children affected by violence

The Protection and Social Rehabilitation Centre, known as the AMAN Centre, is a Qatari centre for the "protection and rehabilitation of women and children victims of violence and family disintegration". That is its scope: this line is for women and children affected by violence or family breakdown, not a general helpline for everyone.

The centre describes its 919 hotline as "an advanced service for receiving social protection requests and providing social, legal and psychological advisory services". Psychological support is one of the three strands the centre names, so this is a mental health relevant line, not only a legal one.

Within its scope, it is the one psychosocial line in Qatar that answers at any hour. The centre says of 919: "It operates 24 hours a day, seven days a week".

Tel: 919

Tel: 0097444090999, as the centre prints it, also printed as "+974 44090999".

WhatsApp: 33850022, answered, in the centre's wording, "24 hours a day". The centre's own premises keep shorter office hours; the hotline and WhatsApp are the 24-hour channels.

Cost: the centre "extends its services free of charge to all citizens and residents in the State of Qatar".

Languages: "French, Hindi, Urdu, Philippines, and Nepali, in addition to the Arabic and English languages", in the centre's own wording.

While you are waiting to be answered

The mental health helpline keeps daytime hours, and a line that is open can still be busy. If you are waiting, try to stay with someone you trust, or ask someone to sit with you until the call connects.

If you have anything near you that you could use to harm yourself, put it somewhere harder to reach, or ask someone else to hold it for you. Distance and time both help.

If waiting is not possible, dial 999 or go to a hospital emergency department. You do not need an appointment and you do not need to explain yourself well.

If you are worried about someone else

Ask them directly. Asking someone whether they are thinking of suicide does not put the idea there, and it often comes as a relief to be asked plainly.

Listen more than you advise. You do not need the right words, and you are not expected to fix anything.

If they are willing, offer to sit with them while they call one of the numbers above, or to make the call together. If they are in immediate danger, treat it as you would any medical emergency.

Supporting someone through this is heavy, and it is reasonable to want support of your own. The same lines are open to you.

For services in other countries, see the list of helplines and suicide hotlines worldwide.

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