The All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), New Delhi and ICMR are collaborating on a project to conduct virtual autopsies, as reported in TOI, Jan 20, 2019. The head of the Forensics Department at AIIMS said that they have already set up a digital X-ray machine to conduct an autopsy of the deceased with bone injuries or fractures caused after an accident. He further said that in the virtual autopsy, the deceased’s records are available in digital format and thus it permits additional analysis by other forensic pathologists on the same body; second or third opinion even after years if some allegations crop up in the future.
So it must be done in every death case as those due to non-medico-legal cases so that we can exact know the cause of death and formulate better policies to control such deaths and make human life more healthy and long. The word “autopsy” is Greek in origin.…
