1Associate Professor, Forensic Medicine Dept., GMERS Medical College, Gandhinagar
2Assistant Professor, Forensic Medicine Dept., GMERS Medical College, Dharpur-Patan
*Corresponding author: Dhaval J Patel Associate Professor, Forensic Medicine Dept., GMERS Medical College, Gandhinagar. Email: drdhavaljpatel@yahoo.com
Online published on 17 August, 2016.
Even after modernization, awareness and better treatment, burns deaths are still common in Indian society. Burn injuries are very common in developing countries due to high population density, domestic accidents, poverty, illiteracy, lack of appropriate safety measures. Amongst them females is more common victim than male. Male female ratio is 1: 2.2. Most affected age group is 21–30 years with rural predominance than urban. Most of victims are house wives (45%) during the cooking which are accidental deaths (51%).
Burn, death, female
