Iran News: Rising Physician Suicide Rates in Iran Amid Expert Exodus ncr-iran.org - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from ncr-iran.org Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Washington Iranian civil society organizations and professionals say suicide rates have reached crisis levels among school students and recent medical school graduates in the past month, with no sign of solutions from the government. Iranian state news agency IRNA acknowledged the worsening of the Islamic republic's suicide problem generally in a January 6 article. It cited Hamid Parvih, the vice president of Iran's Suicide Prevention Scientific Society, as saying about 120,000 people attempted suicide in the Persian year ending March 2023, a 51% increase from the seven years prior. He said more than 6,000 of those attempts ended in death. In a January 26 Telegram post, Iran's largest teachers' union said at least eight primary and secondary school students committed suicide in various parts of the country during the Persian month of Dey that ended January 20. The labor union, the Coordinating Council of Iranian Teacher Trade Associations, described the situation
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