Prevention of drowning and its societal implications.

ABSTRACT

Death by drowning is not an uncommon phenomenon when stresses of the modern day life compel the person to end the life. In the regions where water sources are in abundance, e.g. rivers, canals, lakes, ponds and places near sea, these are readily available for such persons to end their lives. Homicides may also effected by pushing a person into well or canal. Accidents do occur when a person is walking or driving along a water source. We have to find out the reasons, by doing proper epidemiological studies, to find out ways to prevent such unnatural deaths. Daily we read some person committing suicide by one mean or other. In this ongoing study conducted in mortuary of Govt. Medical College, Patiala, relation of various factors like marital status, sex, age, etc with drowning were studied.