Six young doctors, including four from Telangana and Andhra Pradesh, died by suicide in September, exposing severe stress and lack of institutional support in medical education. Experts urge reforms such as wellness centres, mentoring, and confidential psychiatric care to prevent further tragedies.

Hyderabad: In the month of September, four young doctors, all related to the two Telugu-speaking States in some way or another, died by suicide. Furthermore, two more young doctors, one in Chhattisgarh and another in Maharashtra, also took the extreme step, taking the overall number of suicides committed by the young doctors to six.

The one common thread tying the six tragedies is that the young doctors, in their suicide notes, pointed to severe stress, academic failure, work-related harassme

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