18-year-old woman dies of suicide in Garmiyan: police
ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - An 18-year-old woman took her own life in Garmiyan’s Kalar district on Thursday, the police confirmed to Rudaw, as the Region continues to exhibit a drastic increase in suicide numbers.
A grade 12 high school student, whose name was not disclosed by the police, died of suicide on Thursday by hanging herself inside her own house in the village of Bingird in Kalar. The family has claimed that “the girl had no problems, and they don’t know why she has hanged herself,” according to Ali Jamal Qaduri, the spokesperson of Garmiyan’s police.
Jamal told Rudaw on Thursday that the body has been sent to the examining magistrate, and that Garmiyan’s criminal police have begun their investigations into the incident.
The Kurdistan Regional Government's (KRG) Ministry of Health and the Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs announced earlier in April that the Region is set to open three hospitals that specialize in treating women with "chronic" mental health issues in all three of its provinces.
“In a region marred by decades of conflict and crisis, people living in the KRI suffer from limited access to basic mental health and PSS [psychosocial support] services,” read a statement in January by Erbil-based NGO SEED Foundation. It added that “societal stigmatization of mental health” needs to be challenged.
Iraq has experienced a concerning rise in suicide rates, reporting 772 cases of suicide in the year 2021, with around 45 percent of those cases being women.
Another suicide factor that has been reported in Iraq is a spike in incidences of domestic violence which has increased since the pandemic. Around 20 percent of the suicide deaths account for housewives, as of December last year, according to Iraq’s Ministry of Interior.
To combat suicide among young Iraqis, the health ministries of the Kurdistan Region and Iraq launched a helpline last year providing free confidential counseling in Arabic and Kurdish, with the support of the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) and funding from Sweden.
A grade 12 high school student, whose name was not disclosed by the police, died of suicide on Thursday by hanging herself inside her own house in the village of Bingird in Kalar. The family has claimed that “the girl had no problems, and they don’t know why she has hanged herself,” according to Ali Jamal Qaduri, the spokesperson of Garmiyan’s police.
Jamal told Rudaw on Thursday that the body has been sent to the examining magistrate, and that Garmiyan’s criminal police have begun their investigations into the incident.
The Kurdistan Regional Government's (KRG) Ministry of Health and the Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs announced earlier in April that the Region is set to open three hospitals that specialize in treating women with "chronic" mental health issues in all three of its provinces.
“In a region marred by decades of conflict and crisis, people living in the KRI suffer from limited access to basic mental health and PSS [psychosocial support] services,” read a statement in January by Erbil-based NGO SEED Foundation. It added that “societal stigmatization of mental health” needs to be challenged.
Iraq has experienced a concerning rise in suicide rates, reporting 772 cases of suicide in the year 2021, with around 45 percent of those cases being women.
Another suicide factor that has been reported in Iraq is a spike in incidences of domestic violence which has increased since the pandemic. Around 20 percent of the suicide deaths account for housewives, as of December last year, according to Iraq’s Ministry of Interior.
To combat suicide among young Iraqis, the health ministries of the Kurdistan Region and Iraq launched a helpline last year providing free confidential counseling in Arabic and Kurdish, with the support of the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) and funding from Sweden.