Chennai: Government Medical College Organized CME on 'Good Clinical Practice in Legal Medicine'

Chennai: A medical education program (CME) on 'Good Clinical Practice in Legal Medicine' was recently organized by the Department of Forensic Medicine and Toxicology, Government Stanley Medical College Hospital.

According to a media report in the Hindu, the press release stated that Justice S. Tamilvanan, former Judge (retired), Madras High Court, delivered a lecture on litigations relating to medical practice. Further, District Judge M. Rajalakshmi, Special POCSO (Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act) Court, Chennai, spoke on the role of experts under POCSO Act. 

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A panel discussion was held in which experts from different specialties and fields discussed various medico-legal guidelines with respect to POCSO Act. 

Nearly 300 personnel coming from the medical, police, and judicial departments took part in the CME. Additionally, P. Balaji, dean of Government Stanley Medical College Hospital, and S. Balasubramanian, professor and head, Department of Forensic Medicine and Toxicology of the hospital were also present, reports the Hindu.

The Medical Dialogues team had earlier reported about a program launched in SIMS hospital, one of the leading best hospitals in Chennai from the house of SRM Group, who announced the launch of Hello Doctor – 20012001 in the presence of the Chief Guest Thiru Ma. Subramaniam, Minister for Health and Family Welfare, Government of Tamil Nadu along with Dr. J. Radhakrishnan IAS., Principal Secretary Health and Family Welfare, Government of Tamil Nadu, and Dr. Ravi Pachamuthu, Chairman of SRM Group. Providing both home healthcare services as well as acute hospital care at home, Hello Doctor – 20012001 is designed specially to provide continuous SIMS' hospital-level health care in the comfort of their homes to the residents of Chennai with proper monitoring and treatment protocols, supplemented with virtual care.

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