Suicide cases in northwest Syria are on the rise. In the first half of 2022 they tripled as reported by mirrors who made a report on the psychological conditions of civilians after the war. Most people who choose to take their own lives do so by taking so-called “gas pills”, used as pesticides to preserve crops. Suicide matters most women and girlsoften forced into arranged marriages to heal the economic situation of family members.
Registered cases of suicide increased in the second quarter of 2022. Failed attempts, on the other hand, increased from 106 to 213 in the first six months of 2022. nearly half of reported cases: the victims are mostly girls under 18 who are forced to interrupt their studies or arrange marriages.
Particularly affected by the phenomenon is Idlib, host city 4 million people🇧🇷 Of these, at least half are displaced people fleeing other areas of Syria. The attacks, in fact, drove a large part of the country’s population to the northwest, who lost their homes and jobs. In Idlib there are approx. 1,300 refugee camps: the settlements do not have adequate sanitation and heating to face the winter. According to United Nations estimates, at least 82,000 people they live homeless.
According to what was reported to the Mirror by psychiatrists working in refugee camps, gas pills can kill in minutes and are the main means of suicide. Pesticides are widely available from stores in northwest Syria.
These products remain on the market because they are important for the preservation of plantations and are also sold indiscriminately to young people and children, those most affected by the war. The situation is made even more serious by the difficulties in accessing psychiatric care, which today are found at the bottom of the country’s hierarchy of primary needs.
Families’ attention is, in fact, focused on epidemics, poverty and unbridled hunger in Syria: every day 1.7 million children are exposed to illness and death from malnutrition.
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