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Tamil Nadu
Suicide rate alarmingly high in Tirupur district
R.Vimal Kumar
Tirupur: Suicides continue to soar high at an alarming rate in Tirupur district as 565 persons ended their lives in 2010 (calendar year) against the 491 suicides reported in 2009. Of the 565 persons, 352 were men, 168 were women, 15 were boys and the remaining girls.
Statistics
Police sources told The Hindu that the maximum of 245 persons (male-165, female-65, boys-5 and girls-10) consumed poison to end their lives, while 188 persons (male-132, female-42, boys-6 and girls-8) took the extreme step by hanging in houses.
As many as 59 persons (male-17, female-38, and girls-4) had reportedly committed suicide by consuming cow dung powder though there was a ban on its sale existed in the district last year.
Of the remaining, 43 persons ended their lives by self immolation and 30 by jumping into water bodies.
K. Sakthivel, psychiatrist, District Headquarters Hospital, told The Hindu that suicide was high among migrant worker population owing to the stress they face and due to the vulnerable personality traits in them which lead them to end life even at the slightest of the provocations.
The statistics indicate that the steps taken by the police and revenue administrations last year to bring down the suicide rate in the district, including setting up of suicide prevention cells and counselling, have not yielded the desired effect.
Despite the high suicides in Tirupur became a national-level issue, the government hospitals in the district even now do not have adequate specialist psychologists and paramedical staff to attend to the patients.
The District Headquarters Hospital has one psychiatrist, while the other government hospitals do not have any.
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