SINDH: More than 125 women ended their life in Sindh Tharparkar in the last 13 months due to various reasons including poverty, parenthetic traditions and social injustice.
The shocking suicide figures paint a miserable picture of a situation being faced by people in the region, which has the lowest Human Development Index rating among all the districts of Sindh province.
Psychologists, civil society, and non-governmental organizations discussed the causes and problems relating to the rising trend of women forced to take their own lives in the Tharparkar district during a workshop.
A participant of the workshop shared that more than 100 women had taken their own lives over the past 13 months.
Experts stressed the resolution of social and economic issues to control the growing trend of suicide, adding that an awareness campaign would also help in this regard.
It may be recalled that according to a survey released in 2019, 50 percent of children under the age of five in Sindh were suffering from malnutrition.
Hundreds of children die every month in Tharparkar due to malnutrition and epidemics. In 2018, 505 children died of starvation and disease, while in 2017, 445, in 2016, 489, in 2015, 398, and in 2014, 326 children died.
According to the National Nutrition Survey Report 2018, published jointly by UNICEF and the British High Commission, 40 percent of children under the age of five in the province were underweight. At the same time, 40 percent of adolescent boys and girls in the province also suffer from anemia.
