1Senior Professor & Head, Department of Hospital Administration, Pt. B. D. Sharma, PGIMS, Rohtak
2Assistant Professor Cum Dy., Medical Superintendent, Pt. B. D. Sharma, PGIMS, Rohtak
3Medical Superintendent, Pt. B. D. Sharma, PGIMS, Rohtak
*Corresponding author: Dr. Brijender Singh Dhillon Senior Professor & Head, Department of Hospital Administration, Pt. B.D.S. PGIMS, Rohtak, (Haryana) Pin Code-124001 E Mail ID: dhillonbrijen@yahoo.com Mobile No: + 91-9999110455
Online published on 7 February, 2017.
Medico legal case is a case of injury or illness resulting out of sexual assault, poisoning or any suspicious circumstances, where the attending doctor, after eliciting history of the patient and on medical examination, decides that an investigation by law enforcement agencies is essential to understand establish and fix the criminal responsibility for the case in accordance with the law of the land in the interest of truth and justice of victim/patient and state. Various Government agencies and court of law are referring different medico legal cases at PGIMS Rohtak for expert opinion being an apex tertiary acre institute of Haryana.
To study the pattern of medico legal cases referred to medical board department
It was a retrospective study where the files of all medico legal cases referred to PGIMS, Rohtak for medical board opinion between Years Jan 2013 to December 2014 were retrieved and extensively analyzed.
Total 140 cases were referred to the PGIMS, Rohtak for expert opinion from medical board during the study duration. Out of them maximum cases (28%) were in the age group of 10–20 years and the age was not mentioned in 36% of the case files. Majority of them were males (66%). Majority of the medico legal cases (69%) were referred from the different districts of Haryana and 7% were referred from the different jails. Majority of the cases were from the rural areas (64%) and had been referred from the civil surgeon office of different districts (39%) followed by the court of law (29%). In 31% cases the medico legal cases were referred to the PGIMS, Rohtak for age estimation by a board of doctors followed by opinion regarding nature of injury (25%). The doctors of sixteen (16) different departments were pooled as a member of different medical boards for examination of these patients. Out of them doctors from Forensic Medicine department contribute maximum times as board members (39%) followed by the doctors from the Dental College (19%).
It was observed that majority of the patients were males and were between the age group of 10–20 years. 66% patients were referred from the rural areas of the Haryana for medical board examination. Thus this study was carried out to show the load of medico legal cases at a tertiary care and teaching hospital.
Medico legal cases, Medical Board
