Kuwait City: Two Indian citizens, a boy and a woguy, committed suicide and those cases have continued to increase since the start of the COVID-19 crisis. The guy hung himself from a tree and the woguy hung himself from a ceiling fan, Al Anba reported.
Firefighters and security officials were informed of the incidents and responded quickly. The man’s body was transferred to a forensic branch to examine the cause of death, while security officials have already recorded the death of the woman in Jleeb Al Shuyoukh as a suicide with the number 16/2020.
Between February and June, there were 40 cases of suicide and 15 failed attempts, mainly among Asian expats, Al Qabas reported.
In June, two expats committed suicide by hanging: a Nepalese, who was being treated by COVID-19, and an Indian citizen who ran in Al Ahmad’s stables.
There has been a 40% increase in suicide cases since the onset of the pandemic. On average, there are 70 to 80 suicide cases per year. In 2019, 80 suicide cases were reported compared to 77 cases in 2018.
Economic and physiological effect
The cases investigated revealed that most of those who committed suicide had suffered physiological and economic difficulties because they had spent too much time in solitary confinement, had not charged for months, or both.
“There are several points that could cause suicide, one of which is the excessive anxiety and isolation factor, especially since other people spend all their time at home, without schedules, thus creating a replacement in daily behavior,” Dr. Hussein said. Al Shatti, a psychiatrist at Amiri Hospital, told Al Rai.
According to a study by Leo Sher in the International Journal of Medicine, suicide rates increased the 2003 SARS outbreak in Hong Kong due to a lack of social commitment. As for the economic effect, Sher noted the accumulation of suicides in relation to unemployment, as there was an uptick in suicide cases of the Great Depression of the 1930s, as well as in the peak years of recession.
Samira Al Dosari, a social psychology consultant, explained the other reasons for the suicide, “[which] come with monetary tension and crises affecting other people of other nationalities in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic,” he told Al Qabas. “These other people count for their livelihood with the paintings that have ceased because of the pandemic.”
Areas such as Jleeb Al Shuyouk and Mahboula, two neighborhoods populated mainly by expats, were absolutely blocked for 3 months. This basically involved “day-to-day” staff who have found employment based on existing needs, such as transitional structure jobs or short-term driving force jobs.
Since Kuwait has experienced some partial curfew diversifications since 21 March, with the exception of 3 weeks in May, when the country has been absolutely blocked, many businesses have closed or operated at limited capacity. Due to curfew, many companies have not worked regularly, which has caused pay cuts for their workers or even let them go.
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