This paper examines the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on cases of self-poisoning in low and middle income countries.
What is the extent of states’ obligation to protect its residents from self-inflicted harm and suicide?
In the question of suicide prevention, the burden is usually placed on health care and mental health professionals, police, and school councilors to ensure mental health support and protection of life of suicidal individuals [1, 2]. Domestic laws of the right to life concentrate on the general criminal law prohibition of the “arbitrary” deprivation of human life.
Article originally published in the Nepali Times.
A 53-year-old laboratory assistant at a reputed hospital in Kathmandu recently bought aluminium phosphide tablets and ingested three of them. He started vomiting immediately, and had to be rushed into emergency.
This paper provides a systematic review of poisoning cases and deaths in India between 1999 and 2018. The study found that pesticide poisoning was a major cause of death.
This paper identifies pesticides responsible for suicides in Nepal. Data on pesticide poisoning cases were collected from major hospitals and forensic toxicology laboratories across the country.
Sri Lanka has been awarded a special accolade at Future Policy Award 2021, in recognition of the policies and laws adopted to regulate highly hazardous pesticides (HHPs) and to reduce the suicide rate in the country.
This paper analyses pesticide regulation and pesticides responsible for poisonings in Nepal, relating them to national suicide rates.
In this study, we aimed to investigate factors associated with purchasing pesticides for self-poisoning in Sri Lanka to inform policies and guide the design of appropriate interventions to reduce access to pesticides for self-poisoning.
This study aimed to identify the key pesticides now responsible for suicides in rural Sri Lanka to provide data for further pesticide regulation.