India-16,000 student suicides in three years
Posted in India, Suicide, students on May 4, 2008 | 1 Comment »
New Delhi: Over 16,000 school and college students in India committed suicide in the last three years, says the health ministry, shedding light once again on the sorry state of mental healthcare in the country.
As per the ministry, 5,857 students committed suicide in 2006 and the figure for 2005 was 5,138. Similarly, [...]
