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      <journal-id journal-id-type="publisher-id">JPSIM</journal-id>
      <journal-title-group>
        <journal-title>Journal of Pakistan Society of Internal Medicine</journal-title>
        <abbrev-title>J Pak Soc Intern Med</abbrev-title>
      </journal-title-group>
      <issn publication-format="print">2709-8729</issn>
      <issn publication-format="electronic">2710-0804</issn>
      <publisher>
        <publisher-name>Pakistan Society of Internal Medicine</publisher-name>
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      <article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.70302/jpsim.v5i2.2439</article-id>
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          <subject>Case Report</subject>
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        <article-title>A Case of Suicide attempt with Rat Poisoning presented at THQ Hospital Emergency Room, Sambrial, Sialkot</article-title>
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        <contrib contrib-type="author" corresp="yes">
          <name>
            <surname>Rajpoot</surname>
            <given-names>Nauman Rafi</given-names>
          </name>
          <email>naumanrafirajpoot27311@import.invalid</email>
          <xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1"/>
          <xref ref-type="corresp" rid="cor1">*</xref>
        </contrib>
        <contrib contrib-type="author">
          <name>
            <surname>Eatsham</surname>
            <given-names>M. Umar</given-names>
          </name>
          <xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1"/>
        </contrib>
        <contrib contrib-type="author">
          <name>
            <surname>Khalid</surname>
            <given-names>Anum</given-names>
          </name>
          <xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff2"/>
        </contrib>
        <contrib contrib-type="author">
          <name>
            <surname>Javed</surname>
            <given-names>Mohsan</given-names>
          </name>
          <xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff3"/>
        </contrib>
      </contrib-group>
      <aff id="aff1">
        <institution>Sahara medical college Narowal, Pakistan</institution>
      </aff>
      <aff id="aff2">
        <institution>University College of Pharmacy, University of the Punjab</institution>
      </aff>
      <aff id="aff3">
        <institution>THQ Hospital Sambrial, University of Lahore, Pakistan</institution>
      </aff>
      <author-notes>
        <corresp id="cor1">*Correspondence: Nauman Rafi Rajpoot (naumanrafirajpoot27311@import.invalid)</corresp>
      </author-notes>
      <pub-date date-type="pub" publication-format="electronic" iso-8601-date="2024-06-07">
        <day>07</day>
        <month>06</month>
        <year>2024</year>
      </pub-date>
      <pub-date date-type="collection" publication-format="electronic">
        <year>2024</year>
      </pub-date>
      <volume>5</volume>
      <issue>2</issue>
      <fpage>547</fpage>
      <lpage>549</lpage>
      <history>
        <date date-type="received" iso-8601-date="2024-01-31">
          <day>31</day>
          <month>01</month>
          <year>2024</year>
        </date>
        <date date-type="accepted" iso-8601-date="2024-03-05">
          <day>05</day>
          <month>03</month>
          <year>2024</year>
        </date>
      </history>
      <permissions>
        <copyright-statement>Copyright © 2024 The Author(s)</copyright-statement>
        <copyright-year>2024</copyright-year>
        <copyright-holder>The Author(s)</copyright-holder>
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          <license-p>This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.</license-p>
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      <abstract>
        <p>A female of 31 years old presented at the THQ hospital emergency room. She was exhibiting symptoms of abdominal cramps, sweating, tachycardia, involuntary urination, constricted pupils, muscle weakness, and excessive salivation with a medical history of depression. She was admitted to the hospital for further treatment. Upon getting a history and examining the patient carefully, it was diagnosed that she had taken the rat poison to attempt suicide due to financial conflicts at home, and symptoms were showing organophosphate poisoning. Current studies have shown that suicide attempts in Pakistan are gradually growing, while more common methods of suicide are taking poison, hanging, and using weapons.</p>
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