High court directs all postmortems in state to be videographed
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
Madurai:06.03.2019
The Madurai bench of the Madras high court has granted an interim direction to videograph all the postmortems which are performed in the state after a petitioner raised concerns about the credibility of the reports and sought a direction to record all postmortems.
In his public interest litigation (PIL), R M Arun Swaminathan, an advocate and a resident of Madurai stated that he suspected the nature of postmortems performed at government hospitals.
When the petition was heard on Tuesday, Swaminathan stated that when examining the postmortem reports of four different people, it was found out that all four had the same identification marks. He said that it raises suspicion whether the postmortems were performed or the reports were just copy-pasted by just changing the name and father’s name of the deceased.
He further claimed that nearly 700 postmortem certificates of Government Rajaji Hospital (GRH) were not signed and they are yet to be sent to the concerned police stations. He also stated that though two postings of scientific officers have to be appointed in each of the 24 government medical colleges in the state, the present strength is only three.
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
Madurai:06.03.2019
The Madurai bench of the Madras high court has granted an interim direction to videograph all the postmortems which are performed in the state after a petitioner raised concerns about the credibility of the reports and sought a direction to record all postmortems.
In his public interest litigation (PIL), R M Arun Swaminathan, an advocate and a resident of Madurai stated that he suspected the nature of postmortems performed at government hospitals.
When the petition was heard on Tuesday, Swaminathan stated that when examining the postmortem reports of four different people, it was found out that all four had the same identification marks. He said that it raises suspicion whether the postmortems were performed or the reports were just copy-pasted by just changing the name and father’s name of the deceased.
He further claimed that nearly 700 postmortem certificates of Government Rajaji Hospital (GRH) were not signed and they are yet to be sent to the concerned police stations. He also stated that though two postings of scientific officers have to be appointed in each of the 24 government medical colleges in the state, the present strength is only three.
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