60 Suicide Cases in Three Years in Dishmouk, Kohgiluyeh: “Due to Severe Poverty”
A week after the suicide of an 11-year-old girl in the city of Dishmouk in Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad Province, a city council member reported 60 suicide cases in the region over the past three to four years.
Salman Bina stated on Sunday, February 16, in an interview with ILNA news agency that Dishmouk has been identified as a city of “suicide” and “self-immolation,” noting that most people who have committed suicide in this region over the past few years have been women, and 35 percent of their attempts have been “successful.”
According to Bina, Dishmouk district has a population of 23,000 people who are living with problems such as financial poverty, unemployment, lack of clean drinking water, and absence of schools and girls’ dormitories.
He stated that “the people here are deprived of basic living facilities. Rural women in Dishmouk are forced to walk several kilometers on foot to obtain drinking water, and by the time they return, they have no energy left for other household tasks.”
The Dishmouk city council member also said that most young girls who commit suicide in this region are school dropouts and unemployed.
In just the past month alone, three suicide cases occurred in this region, including two men and one 11-year-old girl.
Masoud Ghadi-Pasha, Deputy for Medical and Laboratory Affairs of the Forensic Medicine Organization of the country, had stated in August of this year that the highest suicide rate in Iran in 1398 (2019-2020) was related to Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad, Ilam, and Kermanshah provinces.
According to Ghadi-Pasha, the highest number of suicide deaths were among people aged 30 to 39 years old, followed by 18 to 24 years old, and the education levels of those who ended their lives through suicide were respectively at the middle school, diploma, pre-university, and primary levels.
The Forensic Medicine Organization has not yet provided a report on suicide statistics in the country for the year 1399 (2020-2021).
Previously, the organization had announced in a report that in 1399, on average 15 people per day in Iran lost their lives as a result of suicide.
The head of the country’s Social Affairs Organization also announced on February 9 that suicide statistics in Iran have increased by four to five percent annually over the past seven years.
Source: Radio Farda
