India: Doctor demands thousands for post-mortem report
expressbuzz.com on March 29, 2011 reported that a forensic professor of Osmania Medical College who demanded money from a businessman to prepare his mother’s post-mortem report before forwarding the same to police was caught on Monday by Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) sleuths. The accused Dr D Jayaraj was demanding the money to prepare the post-mortem of a woman who died after undergoing a knee replacement surgery. Pushpalatha, aged around 56 years had undergone a knee surgery at the Apollo Hospitals in first week of March. “A patient was not supposed to be given solid food within 24 hours of a surgery as she would be under the influence of anaesthesia. Hospital authorities allegedly gave solid food which the woman vomitted.
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