India Urgently Needs Medical Autopsy: It Will Help the World
Year: 2024
Type: article
Abstract: No death should go unexplained is what has been proved as a golden rule in preventing lot many future deaths in medical science. Medical autopsy done in unexplained death has helped to unravel many secrets and subsequently protected many lives. Western countries like the USA and many European countries practice medical autopsy and have successfully done favour to their citizens. India is at a juncture where it cannot avoid medical autopsy in the name of cultural, religious and legal framework anymore. We will present our argument in this article in favour of the same. For the purpose of this article, we have done a review of literature, websites of WHO, United Nations and COVID Dashboard to understand the present scenario in India. Once we could understand this, we could come up with a solution to improve the current scenario.
Authors: Geeta Y. Gupta, Yogesh A. Gupta
Institution: Sterling Hospitals
Language: English
Subfield: Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging
Field: Medicine
Domain: Health Sciences
Open Access status: hybrid
OpenAlex ID: W4410009834