マニラのカピス州ロハス市の農家がCOVID-19パンデミックで生活の糧を失い、自ら命を絶った人たちがいます。
パンデミックに伴うロックダウンによって数百万人のフィリピン人が職を失ったため、2020年には「意図的な自傷行為」による死亡者数が2019年から、57.3%増加したとのことです..
健康専門家のLily Orticio博士は、自殺による死亡事例の増加が世界的な大問題になっていると言っており、仕事を失ったり、経済的に不安定になったりするなど、いくつかの理由があると述べています。
経済活動の復活と雇用の促進が急がれます。
The crisis within: Suicides rise as COVID takes its toll on lives, livelihood
MANILA, Philippines—It was last year when a farmer in Roxas City, Capiz province took his own life after losing his livelihood to the COVID-19 pandemic.
According to the PSA, deaths because of “intentional self-harm” rose by 57.3 percent in 2020 as the pandemic and resulting lockdowns threw millions of Filipinos out of jobs.
The PSA said from 2,810 deaths by intentional self-harm in 2019, the number spiked to nearly double or 4,420 in 2020.
Health expert Lily Orticio (PhD) had written that the rise in cases of deaths by suicide has become a global concern, saying it was due to several reasons, among them loss of work and financial instability.