COVID-19 instigates resurgence of ‘needless autopsies’ issue in India

COVID-19 has swamped the entire world and turned into a pandemic. Its high contagiousness compelled authorities to categorize all autopsies as ‘high risk’ considering the risk of exposure to the healthcare workers. In India, the Criminal Procedure Code authorizes investigating police officer to hold...

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Autores principales: Parekh, Utsav, Kanchan, Tanuj
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier Ltd and Faculty of Forensic and Legal Medicine. 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7365053/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32990601
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jflm.2020.102028
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spelling pubmed-73650532020-07-17 COVID-19 instigates resurgence of ‘needless autopsies’ issue in India Parekh, Utsav Kanchan, Tanuj J Forensic Leg Med Article COVID-19 has swamped the entire world and turned into a pandemic. Its high contagiousness compelled authorities to categorize all autopsies as ‘high risk’ considering the risk of exposure to the healthcare workers. In India, the Criminal Procedure Code authorizes investigating police officer to hold an inquest into suspicious deaths. The present article draw attention towards the ‘needless autopsies’ in times of COVID-19 and emphasizes on causes and recommendations. Elsevier Ltd and Faculty of Forensic and Legal Medicine. 2020-08 2020-07-16 /pmc/articles/PMC7365053/ /pubmed/32990601 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jflm.2020.102028 Text en © 2020 Elsevier Ltd and Faculty of Forensic and Legal Medicine. All rights reserved. Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active.
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