Analytical Study of Suicidal Deaths Due To Poisoning in Warangal Area
Journal Title: Scholars Journal of Applied Medical Sciences - Year 2016, Vol 4, Issue 3
Abstract
Suicide is taken as the biggest sin in all religions. Still the incidence is not coming down in any part of the world. Statistics are saying that 1/3rd of all unnatural deaths are because of suicides. Poisoning is one of the commonest methods of committing suicide especially in developing countries like India due to easy availability of poisons because most of the people dependent on agriculture work where poisons like pesticides and insecticides etc. are used. The present study is a prospective study in Kakatiya Medical College, Warangal during the period from January 2013 to June 2014 in the Department of Forensic Medicine. The total number of suicides committed by poisoning is coming to 337 in the study period. They are 186 (55.19%) in the calendar year 2013 and 151 (44.81%) in the first half year of 2014.Total number of males committed suicide by poisoning are 233(69.14%) and females are 104(30.86%) with a ratio of 2.24: 1.265 (78.64%) persons are from low socio economic strata, and 181 (53.71%) are illiterates Most of the deaths are committed by consuming Organo Phosphate compounds. Financial reasons are the leading precipitating factors for committing suicides in the present study and 118 (35.01%) persons died for this. Keywords: suicides, poisons, precipitating factors.
Authors and Affiliations
Dr. T. Krupal Singh, Dr. T. Naveen, Dr. Lavanya Kowsil . G, Dr. Jakkam Surendar
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