Officials from the Ministry of Health and Welfare responded to the international committee's question about the structural problems of Taiwan's high youth suicide rate, but answered that high-rise buildings lead to an increase in impulsive suicide.

(The picture is taken from the website of the Taiwan Shaoxing League)

[Reporter Wu Baixuan/Taipei Report] The international review of the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) is underway after 5 years, but when the international committee asked whether there are structural problems in the cause of suicide among children in Taiwan, Chen Lizhong, Director of Mental Health of the Ministry of Health and Welfare, responded Over the past 10 years, the increase in high-rise buildings in Taiwan has led to impulsive suicide among young people. For this, the Taiwan Youth Rights and Welfare Promotion Alliance has criticized it. Officials ignore social structural problems, shirk responsibility, and call for a public apology, a comprehensive review of campus problems, and the recruitment of additional specialists and auxiliary manpower, etc. .

In the CRC international review, among them, Laura Lundy, an international review member, asked questions specifically: "Taiwan's birth rate is very low, but the death rate of children and children is very high, especially the suicide rate and the death rate of traffic accidents. What I want to ask is Regarding the question of the cause of death, the cause of suicide is mostly personal, but we want to know whether there is any research done to understand whether they have mental health problems, which may be due to structural problems, such as too much school pressure? "

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In this regard, Chen Lizhong said: "In the past five years, you can see that the suicide rate among youths and adolescents has suddenly increased, but if we deduct the factor of jumping from a building, it is actually not so obvious. That is to say, in the past 10 years, due to Taiwan's high The increase in the number of buildings led to the impulsive suicide of many teenagers and youths by jumping off buildings.”

Facing the above-mentioned answer from Chinese officials, the Taiwan Youth League stated that the officials of the Ministry of Health and Welfare said that teenagers are "impulsive suicide", but even if the category of suicide by jumping from a building is deducted, the officials still cannot explain why the suicide rate among teenagers is still rising every year!

Not only did the Ministry of Health and Welfare fail to answer the international committee's questions directly, it even showed that the "government department responsible for the mental health and suicide prevention of Chinese people" is far from professional enough!

The Taiwan Youth League cannot tolerate officials ignoring social structural problems and shirking the country's responsibility to improve children's mental health!

The Taiwan Youth League said that some students said that even if it is a school that has won the top university plan of 50 billion in five years, it takes superhuman effort to grab the supplementary resources in the school just like grabbing concert tickets. , During the final exam, many students were depressed. Too much academic pressure is obviously an issue that needs more attention.

In response to the outrageous claims made by the Ministry of Health and Welfare, the Taiwan Youth League requires the Ministry of Health and Welfare to make a public apology, severely punish incompetent officials, and face up to the issue of children's mental health, recruit more specialized and auxiliary manpower on campus, and comprehensively review the appeal mechanism for school issues, breaking the "river crab" shady scene, etc. , appealing to the urgency of the mental health problems of Taiwanese teenagers, and the Ministry of Health and Welfare as the main responsible department, let alone such an international joke!

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