Medico-legal autopsy of 1355 unclaimed dead bodies brought to a tertiary care hospital in Delhi, India (2006–2012)

Chopra, S.; Garg, Aayushi; Behera, Chittaranjan; Krishna, Karthik; Millo, Tabin; Gupta, SK

doi:10.1177/0025817214533759

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“…Most of the cases among unnatural death group were due to rail accidents probably because of majority of population of our region belong from the low socioeconomic strata. Chest and abdominal diseases combined were responsible for majority of natural deaths which is in accordance with other studies done in the past [3,8] . The findings of our study reveal that accident is an important cause of mortality in the study area.…”

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“…The unknown body brought for autopsy is preserved in the mortuary for 72 hours from the time, it comes to mortuary. If there is no claim for the body, after 72 hours the police officials are legally authorized to dispose of the body [3,4] . Globally, World Population Data (WPD) sheet, indicates a global population clock of crude mortality due to Unknown/ unidentified cases in developing countries is 44 million per year [5] .…”

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Pattern of Death of Unidentified Cases: A mortuary based study from Patna Medical College, Bihar

Prasad¹

2019

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To know the pattern of deaths in relation to the age, sex, pattern of injuries and cause of death in the unknown cases. Methods: In this prospective study, all unknown cases brought for autopsy at Patna Medical College, Patna between 1 st January to 31 st December were studied. Information regarding unclaimed bodies with regard to age, sex, cause and manner of death was sourced from the autopsy reports and the inquest papers of the investigating officers. Results: Out of 114 medicolegal autopsies done, 89(78.07%) were of male. Majority (24.5%) of unknown cases belong to 21-30 years age group. 71(62.28%) cases died unnaturally while 43 (37.72%) of the cases died naturally. Of all unnatural deaths, railway accident injuries was the most common (26.76%) cause of death. Among 43 natural deaths, in 22 (51.16%) cases, chest and abdominal diseases combined were responsible. Conclusions: The government should take initiative at large to prevent unnatural deaths. It is high time that law enforcement agencies should ensure and adopt the protocol of criminal investigation under provision of law and correlating with all concerned intermediary agencies like FSL, NHRC and others for concluding the cause and manner of unnatural deaths.

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confidence: 91%

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Pattern of Death of Unidentified Cases: A mortuary based study from Patna Medical College, Bihar

Prasad¹

2019

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“…Nora Abdellah et al, 12 Khanna et al, 18 Saurav et al, 21 Patel JB 22 and Wasnik RN et al 23 males were in the range of 76.77% to 91.00% and females 9.00% to 24.23% cases.But the Bhabhor et al 17 observed a slightly lower incidence of males from 54.57 % to 69.00% cases. This is because males are generally earning members of society, and females usually doing household activity.…”

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Profile of Medico legal Autopsies Conducted at Tertiary Medico-legal Centre in Northern India

Mann¹,

Saini²,

Saini³

2021

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The present study is a retrospective study of medico-legal autopsies conducted in the Department of Forensic Medicine and Toxicology MMIMSR Mullana, Ambala, India, from Jan 2016 to December 2020. During this period, 793 cases of medico-legal autopsies were done in the mortuary of MMIMSR, Mullana, Ambala. The majority of victims were male 670 (84.48 %) cases and female 123 (15.52%) cases. A maximum number of post mortem done in the age group 20-40 years was 385(48.56 %) cases and minimum in age group 0-10 year were 18 (02.26%) cases. In our study, 601 (75.78%) were married, 169 (21.31%) unmarried, and unknown 23 (02.99%) cases. Hindus were 660 (83.22%), Muslim 50(06.30%), and Sikh 83 (10.48%) cases. The total number of deaths from rural areas was 406(51.20%) cases, which is slightly higher than urban area 387 (48.80%) cases. Manners of death due to natural causes were 38 (04.97%) cases and unnatural 755 (95.20%) cases. In unnatural, (accidents 551 (69.44%), Suicides 186 (23.44%) and homicides 18 (02.24%) cases). A maximum number of death due to Head injury were 235 (29.64%), shock and hemorrhage 188 (23.70%), poisoning 124 (15.64%), others-skeleton and visceral injuries 81 (10.22%), hanging 44 (05.54%), heart attack 38(04.78%), Drowning 23(02.90%), Electrocution 14 (01.76%), strangulation 13(01.64%), burns 11(1.38%), alcoholic 10(01.26%), septicemia 10(01.26%) and snake bite 2(00.26%)cases. A maximum number of deaths occurring between 0-6 hrs of injury was 395(49.82%) cases, and a minimum number of deaths in 24-48 hrs of injury was 22(02.77%) cases.

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“…1,2 Whatever is the proportion, hospital authorities due to many socio-legal issues, find it difficult to dispose unclaimed dead bodies from morgues. 3,4 Globally there are endeavours to create online database for the identification of these unclaimed dead bodies. [5][6][7] In some developed countries, unclaimed bodies are turned over to the State Anatomy Board after 72 hours if no claimant can be located through a "reasonable search".…”

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Dealing with unclaimed dead bodies- embrace the challenge

Arora

Singh

2017

Int J Community Med Public Health

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Background: Worldwide a significant number of unclaimed dead bodies report to hospital and health authorities find it difficult to clear them from morgues. The epidemiology of these unclaimed dead bodies and various methods to identify them has been studied by various forensic experts but no study has considered pitfalls in dignified disposal of the dead bodies. Methods: As a part of routine set up of mortuary, a designated person among the staff of mortuary has been assigned the task of keeping the record of unidentified dead bodies and facilitating their disposal with the help of local police and police under whose jurisdiction the case falls. The same data has been collected retrospectively between the period from 1st April 2014 to 31st March 2015. Results: In this study our designated person, in coordination with local police, was able to expedite the process of disposing these dead bodies on an average in 9.7 days; in accordance with the law and as per the customary rituals, where ever possible. This reflects an extraordinary work beyond the routine tasks given to this indispensable and highly motivated worker. Conclusions: However, this points to a possible need for development of a mechanism, where it is not dependent on individual efforts.

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Medico-legal autopsy of 1355 unclaimed dead bodies brought to a tertiary care hospital in Delhi, India (2006–2012)

Cited by 8 publications

References 7 publications

Pattern of Death of Unidentified Cases: A mortuary based study from Patna Medical College, Bihar

Pattern of Death of Unidentified Cases: A mortuary based study from Patna Medical College, Bihar

Profile of Medico legal Autopsies Conducted at Tertiary Medico-legal Centre in Northern India

Dealing with unclaimed dead bodies- embrace the challenge

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