MIAMI, United States. – A 22-year-old woman who was under the care of her family due to her mental illness took her own life on Friday morning in her own home, in Old Havanaas confirmed by a collaborator of CubaNet present in the vicinity of the place.
The events occurred in the house located on Villegas Street, No. 412, between Teniente Rey and Muralla.
So far, no other details of the unfortunate event are known.
In 2021, it emerged that, on average, about four people died every day on the Island from self-inflicted injuries. According to data from the health statistical yearbooksalmost 9,000 individuals committed suicide between 2014 and 2020 in the largest of the Antilles.
In the last century, the death rate from self-inflicted injuries has remained above 10 per 100,000 inhabitants, a value considered high that, however, is practically half of what was recorded on the Island in the past decade of the 90s. The highest peak of suicides in the country coincided with the acute economic crisis named by Fidel Castro as Special Period.
In 2019, Cuba It was the fourth country with the most suicides in the regiona multifactorial phenomenon that can respond to different patterns depending on age range, sex, religion, availability of resources, mental health and presence of chronic diseases. Other determining factors are poverty, emigration and stigma.
And in the case of the Island it is also a historical behavior. Since the mid-nineteenth century, Cuba already showed one of the highest suicide rates in the world. In 1950, the Cuban rate was three times higher than that of Chilefive times higher than that of Costa Rica and eight times higher than that of Mexico.
