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Dignified management of dead: AIIMS Delhi introduces virtual autopsy
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New Delhi: In a revolutionary step, the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), Delhi has introduced a virtual autopsy for the first time in South ad South-Eastern regions on Saturday, thereby doing away with the need to cut open the dead body to establish the cause of death.
Virtual autopsy allowed the experts to conduct a postmortem on a dead body without dissecting the body from top to bottom. The facility has been inaugurated by Dr Balram Bhargava, the Director-General of the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) on Saturday.
In a virtual autopsy, the internal organs, tissues, and bones of a dead body can be analyzed and examined without touching the body. Following the process, the body will be packed in a bag and put under a specialized CT Scan Machine and a coaxial tomography is performed and within a second a thousand images of the internal organs will be captured.
Thus, the forensic experts will be able to analyze the internal organs without conducting a physical autopsy on the corpse. The virtual autopsy reports will be available in digital format and it will allow other forensic pathologists to conduct an additional analysis also. Thus, a second and third opinion can be sought even after years if some complications or allegations come up regarding the autopsy in the future.
Sanchari Chattopadhyay has pursued her M.A in English and Culture Studies from the University of Burdwan, West Bengal. She likes observing cultural specificities and exploring new places.