Over the most recent couple of months since the Covid-19 lockdown was declared, there have been a few media reports connecting suicides and endeavored suicides to the pandemic. While it might be too soon to foresee the effect, self destruction rates will be a marker of the infection’s cost for the country’s psychological wellness.
Zofeen T. Ebrahim addressed Dr Murad Moosa Khan, Professor Emeritus, Aga Khan University, Karachi, likewise the leader of the International Association for Suicide Prevention. Having been checking reports of self destruction in Pakistan, and uniquely watching the current patterns, he finds the current circumstance “extremely troubling”.
Q. Has there been an anomalous spike in suicides and endeavored suicides since the lockdown? Is there proof to interface it to Covid-19? Would this be able to be demonstrated verifiably?
A. There have been various reports in papers that seem to show suicides occurring as an immediate aftereffect of Covid-19. Right now this is the main information we have. We should investigate it to check whether there was a spike in the quantity of cases during the pandemic.
