Exhumation
This is digging of grave after court orders to do a
postmortem on it.
1. Police brings the court
orders.This can only b done after court orders.
2.
Check if any postmortem or MLC is performed on that
body previously. The same doctor who has performed an MLC or postmortem on that
body cannot do Exhumation.It must b a different one for exhumation.
3.
Exhumation is done under doctors supervision .while
digging the grave the police and doctors must b present. It is the duty of
police to identify the right grave.but u have to mention who identified the
grave from relatives.
4
. The main issue doctors face are what to send to
PFSA. During our training at PFSA they said that once body started to rot then
no sample is useful from organs.Tissue cannot b fixed or autolysis made it
impossible to do any DNA from soft tissue.IF a body is fresh then perform the
postmortem as normal one but if it is started to rot then do not send sample
from soft tissue.you can send stomach contents by ligating the stomach from
both ends to toxicology .
5.
Now if the body is old and most of flesh is rotted
away or only bones are there ,then nothing substantial can be obtained. U can
send small bones ,nails, teeth and hairs for heavy mertal poisoning to
toxicology and DNA testing to DNA department. Now remember sending grave soil
is useless. PSFA repeatedly said that it is no point in sending the soil.
6.
Take pictures and order xray of bones. If radiology
tells you that xray cannot b performed bcaz they do not hav the equipment then
ask them to give this reply to u in written.Its their headache to perform
xray.Xray is important because it can tell u information about a fracture .
7. Send samples to PFSA and do
not give opinion without results from labs.
That will be all.
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