Growth report of “The End”-Autopsy statistics in a developing medical college

The present prospective study was carried out at the mortuary of GMERS Medical College and Associated Civil Hospitals, Sola, Ahmedabad. In the year 2011, the institution got permission from the MCI to start the medical college with an annual intake of 150 students. During the 5 calendar years from 2011 to 2015, we received a total of 1, 561 corpses at the mortuary of the hospital for the autopsy. It was seen that the numbers of autopsy cases were rising year by year. No specific pattern of distribution was noticed regarding month-wise distribution. 1183 dead bodies (75.8%) were of males and the remaining were of females. 85 dead bodies (73 males & 12 females, 5.45% of total)were unidentified. 791 victims (50.7%) were from the age groups of 21–40 years. A variety of cases were examined with regard to cause of death. Road traffic accidents (460 cases, 29.5%) were the maximum. In majority of the cases (762 cases, 48.8%), the manner of death was accidental, followed by natural/pathological (363 cases, 23.3%) & suicidal (343 cases, 22%), respectively.