Shillong, Mar 8: The North Eastern Indira Gandhi Regional Institute of Health & Medical Sciences (NEIGRIHMS) has achieved a new milestone in Virtual Autopsy, a way of conducting post-mortem examination without dissection of the body.
A four-week training on Virtual Autopsy organised by the Department of Forensic Medicine NEIGRIHMS, Shillong was successfully concluded on Saturday.
There were five participants comprising faculty and residents from across the country in the first-of-its-kind training programme that started on 10 February..
In his address at the closing ceremony, NEIGRIHMS director Prof (Dr) Nalin Mehta emphasised on bright future of the new modality and encouraged the participants to take initiative to develop such centres in their respective institutes.
Prof AJ Patowary, head of Forensic Medicine, informed that NEIGRIHMS is only the second centre in India to perform Virtual Autopsy, a CT scan-based non-invasive forensic technique that uses imaging to examine a deceased person.
The addition of this new technology is used in determining the cause and manner of death which helps doctors to deliver more precise reports.
The Department of Forensic Medicine NEIGRIHMS will conduct more such training programmes in future for imparting training on Virtual Autopsy to Forensic Medicine specialists in the country.
