Madras HC issues directions on postmortem procedure, death certificate
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Chennai: The Madurai bench of the Madras High Court, while issuing a series of directions regarding the procedure of postmortem and issuing of the death certificate ruled that the doctors, in strict compliance with Article 621 of the Tamil Nadu Medical Code, should hand over the postmortem certificate to the judicial magistrate concerned as soon as it is done.
This came after advocate RM Arun Swaminathan filed a Public Interest Litigation in the court complaining that there is a gap in the procedures followed by the authorities concerned in conducting post mortem at government hospitals.
The Hindu reports that the petitioner alleged that there is a lack of transparency in the whole procedure and the authorities are not abiding by the norms of the Tamil Nadu Medical Code.
Following the submission of the petitioner, a division bench comprising justice N. Kirubakaran and SS Sundar also observed several inconsistencies in the procedure of postmortem and the issuing of the death certificate.
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