DEPARTMENT OF FORENSIC MEDICINE

MAJOR ACHIEVEMENTS IN PATIENT CARE

The Department is committed towards providing prompt, efficient and round the clock facilities of all types of medicolegal cases in OPD of the department and Indoor patients and aggrieved.

There are two walk in cold storage refrigerators, three mortuary cabinets for dead bodies, three autopsy tables with adequate staff at mortuary for prompt disposal of medico-legal autopsies. There is adequate shaded waiting area with water cooler facility outside mortuary for relatives of deceased.

All medico-legal reports are immediately dispatched after completion of medicological examination and handed over or forwarded to the concerned investigation agencies. The photocopies of medicolegal reports can be procured by victim or his/her attendants on producing application at the department office which are issued as per the Government guidelines.

There is  a separate examination room for victims of sexual offences with availability of counseling services to provide a sympathetic environment.

The department is also actively supporting cadaveric organ donation services by extending full cooperation to the agencies involved (eg. Eye bank society (cornea donation) & NGOs involved with cadaveric organ transplantation recently started at SMS Hospital, Jaipur)