Question Many patients are brought dead to the casualty of the hospital. Many of them were in terminal phase of life or suffering from diseases like cancer etc and were under treatment at various hospitals. Their relatives insist for death certificate, how to deal with it? Answer As a rule, all patients brought to hospital as dead on arrival should be made medico-legal and death certificate should not be issued. But cases like above, you may follow following guidelines and issue death certificate at your own risk. Just check carefully all treatment papers and be convinced that they are genuine.
See whether illness was severe enough to cause death. Check whether person is quite old to die naturally. Examine the body in detail for injury, ligature marks, anything strange to point toward un-natural death. If you are convinced then you can issue death certificate at your own risk. Please be…
