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The suicide rate in Berbice continues to rise and the authorities seem incapable of doing anything to stop the rot.Although a comprehensive report for the entire county was not available,Kris Jenkins Villanova Jersey, New Amsterdam Hospital alone recorded 114 cases of attempted suicide in 2013 with 62 being females and 52 males. Of the total figure, 10 of those persons died.Although the authorities are not too keen to release figures, Kaieteur News was reliably informed that for the first nine days of 2014 there have been 11 reported cases in Region Six so far. Six of those persons have died. Seven of the cases were reported at the Regional Hospital alone,Jim Thome Indians Jersey, with two succumbing.Nineteen-year-old Toneisha Edwards, a public management student at the university’s Turkeyen Campus,China Jerseys Cheap, died after being rushed to the medical institution on New Year’s Day where she remained a patient until she died on the 6th after consuming Gramoxone.On Wednesday 8th January,NFL Jerseys Discount, Hemwattie Bissember, 15,Cheap Jerseys, of Bush Lot, Corentyne,Chicago Cubs Jerseys, Berbice, succumbed at the same institution, also after ingesting the deadly poison.Among those hospitalised is a 19-year-old former student of JC Chandisingh Secondary School who graduated in November and is an employee at a bank.One case has been reported at the Skeldon Hospital where 32- year-old Nandranie Oudit of Number 68 Village, Corentyne, Berbice, reportedly drank poisonThree cases have also been reported in the Johanna Black Bush Area.(Samuel Whyte) |
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