INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MEDICAL TOXICOLOGY & LEGAL MEDICINE
  • Year: 2020
  • Volume: 23
  • Issue: 3and4

Profile of medicolegal autopsy cases perforemed at mortury of civii hospital and B. J. medical college in Ahmdabad, Gujarat

1Forensic Medicine DepartmentB. J. Medical College, Ahmedabad, GujaratIndia

*Corresponding Author Dr. Vaghela Raghurajsinh Dhirubhai Tutor, Forensic Medicine DepartmentB. J. Medical College, Civil Hospital Campus Asarwa, Ahmedabad, Gujarat - 380016 Email: rgrj2810@gmail.com

Online published on 15 February, 2021.

Abstract

Medico-legal autopsy profiling helps to understand the nature of causalities. It helps to assess the social and economic profile of the deceased. It is necessary for understanding nature of crime in particular area and with help of that it will helpful to identify the demographic needs and to take necessary preventive measures to stop the crime or unnatural deaths by means of spreading awareness and psychological counselling, if needed. This study is carried out retrospectively on death cases brought for medicolegal autopsies at mortuary of Civil Hospital and B. J. Medical College, Ahmedabad between January and December, 2019.

Keywords

Autopsy, Natural Deaths, Unnatural Deaths, Road Traffic Accidents, Burns, Hanging