{"id":142787,"date":"2024-07-02T15:57:53","date_gmt":"2024-07-02T22:57:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=142787"},"modified":"2024-07-02T15:57:53","modified_gmt":"2024-07-02T22:57:53","slug":"over-3000-lives-lost-due-to-suicides-annually","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2024\/07\/02\/over-3000-lives-lost-due-to-suicides-annually\/","title":{"rendered":"Over 3000 lives lost due to suicides annually"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em><a class=\"glightbox h6 inner_other\" style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymirror.lk\/author\/SHEAIN-FERNANDOPULLE\/577\">\u00a0SHEAIN FERNANDOPULLE\u00a0<\/a> Courtesy The Daily Mirror<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>Colombo, July 02 (Daily Mirror) &#8211; Sri Lanka faces a stark reality as suicides emerge as the leading cause of intentional injury-related deaths, claiming over 3,000 lives each year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This statistic was highlighted by the Ministry of Health during the National Injury Prevention Week to be observed from July 1 to July 5, 2024.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Health officials emphasised that suicides constitute a significant public health challenge, stressing the urgent need for enhanced mental health support services, community awareness programmes, and effective suicide prevention strategies to combat this alarming trend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0SHEAIN FERNANDOPULLE\u00a0 Courtesy The Daily Mirror Colombo, July 02 (Daily Mirror) &#8211; Sri Lanka faces a stark reality as suicides emerge as the leading cause of intentional injury-related deaths, claiming over 3,000 lives each year. This statistic was highlighted by the Ministry of Health during the National Injury Prevention Week to be observed from July [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[122],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-142787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142787","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=142787"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142787\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}