International Suicide Day: WHO urges countries to ban hazardous pesticides
has urged nations to prohibit the use of highly hazardous pesticides which it noted can lead to a reduction in suicides.Despite a decline in the global suicide rate, one person still takes their own life every 40 seconds, records show.Suicide is only second to road injury in the global cause of death among young people aged 15-29.
According to WHO publication also released Tuesday, “Preventing suicide: a resource for pesticide registrars and regulators”, the best-studied country is Sri Lanka, where a series of bans led to a 70 per cent fall in suicides and an estimated 93 000 lives saved between 1995 and 2015.
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