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| Probe committee likely to submit report today | | Dead wrong! Security guard handles autopsies at GMC Anantnag | | Saahil Suhail
Early Times Report
Anantnag, Sept 7: A high-level committee, constituted to probe how an untrained security guard was allowed to handle the post-mortem cases for years at Government Medical College Anantnag (GMC), is expected to submit its report today. Highly placed sources told Early Times that the five member committee constituted by Principal GMC Anantnag has concluded its probe and the ‘committee is about to submit its report’.
“While the claim that the Security guard was actually and single-handedly conducting post-mortem of dead bodies isn’t factually correct, serious negligence on part of the concerned department has been established,” they claimed.
Sources revealed to Early Times that the Forensic Medicine Department at Government Medical College Anantnag has adequate manpower including the doctors and trained assistants.
The probe committee is expected to recommend serious action against the HoD of the department for allowing the security guard inside the autopsy room.
Worth to recall, in blatant violation of norms, the authorities at Government Medical College Anantnag (GMC) were allegedly allowing an untrained security guard to handle the post-mortem cases since 2014.
23 year old Umer Shabir, Bulbul Nowgam area of Anantnag, earlier claimed to have handled around 110 autopsy cases.
Umer claimed that he used to open the bodies, sew them up and handle the internal organs in the post-mortem centre. He even shared a video with the media to prove his claims.
“How Principal GMC Anantnag and Medical Superintendent allowed me when I was actually a security guard? Yesterday Principal GMC told the media that I was lying but I have proof including videos. This time they are telling me to handover records and keys of the autopsy centre,” Umer told the media last week.
Umer claims that he was actually trained by a sweeper who himself used to conduct post-mortem of dead bodies in the same hospital.
Principal Medical College Anantnag Dr Syed Tariq Quraishi had already assured a ‘fair probe’ into the matter.
Generally, doctors and trained staff including mortuary assistants are only allowed to handle the autopsy cases. |
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