Emmanuel Hospital Association (EHA) in partnership with Centre for Pesticide Suicide Prevention (CPSP) University of Edinburgh, observed ‘World Suicide Prevention Day’ 10th September as an awareness-raising event with the theme “Working Together to Prevent Suicide”.

The event was held at eight, Highly Hazardous Pesticide Poisoning - Gathering Requisite Information for Decision-making (HOPE GRID) Research implementing sites under these seven states; Maharashtra, Uttarakhand, Utter Pradesh, Jharkhand, Bihar, Madhya Pradesh, and Chhattisgarh.

The project aims to identify the highly hazardous pesticides currently responsible for the majority of pesticide suicides in India.

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