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15-year-old commits suicide at school’s dining hall

A 15-year-old girl of Miracle Preparatory and Junior High School at Sunyani, in the Bono Region, reportedly committed suicide on Monday, May 17.

The deceased, who has been identified as Leticia Kyere Pinaman, was found hanging dead at the school’s dining hall by her colleagues at about 6:30 pm.

It is not immediately known what led to the incident, but it happened while the students were at the church auditorium for bible studies.

Pinaman is said to have left a suicide note on a table, which supposedly stated: “I am not happy, this world is full of sorrow and pain, I can’t live anymore and I want to die”.

The Housemistress, Gifty Acheampong, is reported to have said in an interview that she was in the kitchen checking on supper for the students when she heard cries.

“I heard the students shouting, so I rushed there and saw her hanging…I quickly rushed to the church auditorium to call the proprietor and the proprietress,” she said.

The Sunyani Municipal police have deposited the body at the Sunyani Regional Hospital morgue.

Suicide records

The WHO has shown that a person dies every 40 seconds by suicide worldwide, with 25 more people attempting suicide.

This puts the data of persons dying averagely per year to suicide at approximately 800,000.

Director-General at the Mental Health Authority, Dr Kwasi Osei, stated in 2019 that an NGO pegged suicide deaths in Ghana at 1,500 deaths per annum.

Dr Osei has been championing the allocation of more funds to deal with mental health in Ghana. He also highlighted the need to introduce mental health levy.

He is also advocating the approval of a mental health levy to cater for the high cost of treatment.

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