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Malaysia sees rise in suicides amid repeated pandemic lockdowns

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Hazlin Hassan‍ Malaysia Correspondent In Kuala Lumpur
PublishedJul 13, 2021, 5:00 am SGT
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Groups repeat call to decriminalise attempted suicide

PETALING JAYA: Several groups have renewed their call for Section 309 of the Penal Code, which makes attempted suicide a crime, to be repealed as well as charges against those who have survived suicide attempts be dropped.
They also asked that an immediate moratorium be imposed against the move to punish suicide survivors under the law.
Datuk Dr Venugopal Balchand, who is decriminalisation focus group chairman of the National Coalition of Mental Wellbeing (NCMW) initiated by Rotary Malaysia, said an urgent repeal is timely as suicide rates have “skyrocketed” amid the pandemic.
“It is not an issue of crime; victims should not be hauled up to the police or remanded. They should be sent to a medical institution. ....

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CPR or DNR for code blue Malaysia? | The Malaysian Insight

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MY previous article “100 Malaysians dead in 3 days” was published on May 15. In the three days since, 125 more Malaysians have died from Covid-19, a record 45 on May 17 alone.
Code blue is the medical term to announce a dire in-hospital emergency when the patient has suffered a cardio-respiratory arrest and cannot be moved. All hospitals have highly trained code blue teams, who most importantly, drop everything they are doing to focus only on resuscitating the collapsed patient.
CPR – cardio-pulmonary resuscitation, a term made ubiquitous by the medical dramas on Hollywood screens! I must warn you that it is not all that glamorous though. CPR for witnessed cardiac arrests in hospital conducted by trained personnel, has a success rate of close to 40%. From these only less than 20% are discharged home alive. Bystander CPR conducted by either trained people or good Samaritans, outside the hospital premises, has a success rate of only around 15%. Less than ....

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