{"id":1947,"date":"2002-05-02T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2002-05-02T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2002\/05\/02\/2002-05-02-suicide-now-fiji-s-biggest-killer\/"},"modified":"2002-05-02T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2002-05-02T12:00:00","slug":"2002-05-02-suicide-now-fiji-s-biggest-killer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2002\/05\/02\/2002-05-02-suicide-now-fiji-s-biggest-killer\/","title":{"rendered":"Suicide Now Fiji&#8217;s Biggest Killer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><A HREF=\"http:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/articleshow.asp?art_id=8667142\">GO TO SOURCE<\/A><\/P><br \/>\n<P><\/p>\n<p>FIJI, May 2, 2002: Suicide, mainly by ethnic Indian women, has become Fiji&#8217;s biggest killer, a mental health expert here said. The principal medical officer at the Saint Giles Psychiatric Hospital here, Dr Odille Chan, presented the latest official statistics to a youth conference and a statement was issued by the government outlining her findings. Indians make up 44 per cent of Fiji&#8217;s 800,000 people. Chan said that in 2000 a total of 104 suicides were recorded, with Indians making up 92 of them. &#8220;Suicide is a multifaceted issue for which there is no single cause,&#8221; she said in the government issued statement. &#8220;It is influenced by a variety of factors &#8212; sociological, psychological or substance abuse &#8212; which interact in a complex manner.&#8221; she added. &#8220;It is clear that suicide is a complex problem, which requires an innovative, comprehensive and multi-sector approach, including health and non-health sectors, for example, education, labor, police, religion, and the media,&#8221; Chan said.<br \/>\n<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GO TO SOURCE FIJI, May 2, 2002: Suicide, mainly by ethnic Indian women, has become Fiji&#8217;s biggest killer, a mental,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1947","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1947","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1947"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1947\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}