Assistant Professor, Dept. of Forensic Medicine, Navodaya Medical college, Raichur
*Corresponding author: Devaraj patil, Assistant Professor, H.No.1-4-1280/432, IDSMT layout, Opp. Radio station, Mantralaya road, Raichur (Karnataka). Mobile: +919448179719, E-mail id: devarajpatil123@yahoo.com
Online published on 23 July, 2013.
Deaths due to poisoning are more in developing countries and methods of poisoning varies from one place to other. Hence to know the pattern of poisoning, a retrospective study was done at a district hospital, Raichur (Karnataka) between the years 2009 - 2012. During this period 302 cases of poisoning deaths were autopsied. These poisoning cases were studied to know age and sex distribution of the victims, commonest type of poisons used and manner of poisoning. In this study, majority 220 (72.85%) of the cases were due to organophosphorus compound, followed by snake bite 30 (9.93%), aluminium phosphide 21 (6.95%) and others respectively.
Poisoning, Unnatural Death, Organophosporous Compound, Snake Bite
