Hyderabad: To comply with the new protocol from the Ministry of Health and the welfare of the family to carry out post-mortem after sunset, the Telangana government on Sunday issued a notification to allow post-sunset procedures in all states to ensure the necessary settings.
This includes ensuring fitness infrastructure, ensuring that no dilution of proof value, video recordings of all post-mortem are carried out at night and post-mortem for organ donations etc.
Post-Mortem after sunset was permitted by the center of November 15.
“Apart from the comfort of a dead family, this new procedure also promotes organ donations and transplants because organs can be harvested in the time window specified after the procedure.
The technical committee of the Ministry of Health and family welfare suggests that due to rapid technological progress and improvement, especially the availability of lighting and The infrastructure needed for Post-Mortem, doing post-mortem night at the hospital is now feasible, “The Post said command.
In addition to ensuring infrastructure fitness and adequacy, the principal or supervisor will be responsible for making the settings needed for post-Mortem after sunset.
“It is also confirmed by the hospital that post-mortem video recording must be done for all post-mortem carried out at night to override suspicion and be preserved for future reference for legal purposes,” said command.
Post-Mortem for organ donations will be taken on priority and do it even after sunset in hospitals have infrastructure to do such post-mortem regularly.
However, cases in categories such as murder, suicide, rape, decomposed bodies and allegations of violations should not be subject to post-mortem at night unless there are legal situations and order, “orders issued by Reddy Medical Director Dr.
K Ramesh Reddy said.