1Assistant Professor, Department of Forensic Medicine & Toxicology, A.C.S Medical College and Hospital, Velappanchavdi, Chennai
2Assistant Professor, Department of Pharmacology, A.C.S Medical College and Hospital, Velappanchavdi, Chennai
3Associate Professor, Department of Forensic Medicine & Toxicology, Kamineni Institute of Medical Sciences, Narketpally, Telangana
4Assistant Professor, Department of Forensic Medicine & Toxicology, Rajiv Gandhi Institute of Medical Sciences, Kadapa, Andhra Pradesh
5Civil Assistant Surgeon, Area Hospital, Markapur, Andhra Pradesh
Online published on 21 July, 2018.
Suicidal poisoning deaths is nowadays an increasing burden of mortality to the society. The present study contains 122cases of suicidal poisoning deaths out of a total of 294(41.49%) suicidal death autopsies conducted during 2 yrs in Rajiv Gandhi Institute of Medical sciences, Kadapa District, Andhra Pradesh. The study includes 77 males (63.11%) and 45 females (36.88%). The ratio of male and female was 1.71: 1. Maximum number of deaths 43 (35.24%) noted in the age group of 21–30 years. Married persons (67.21%) outnumbered to unmarried persons (32.78%). The most common poison used was agricultural Poison (53.27%). victims were more from rural area (67.21%) when compared to urban area (32.78%). suicide cases were more in Illiterate and low educated people when compared to higher educated people. Most of the incidents (45) occurred at working place of the victim. The overall mortality was 14.3% out of total acute poisoning cases reported to hospital. Married males and females in young age group with rural background belonging to low socio economic status and male adults with agricultural occupation and chronic alcoholism are more prone to suicidal poisoning
Suicide, poisoning, pesticides, mortality, death
