The post-mortem reports on the 14 deaths that occurred at MIOT Hospital last week are in the final stages of preparation. “The report is nearly ready. We just have to finalise it and hand it over,” said R. Selvakumar, head of forensic medicine at Government Kilpauk Hospital, who oversaw the post-mortem examinations.
Dr. Selvakumar said that it was only on Wednesday that the police brought over copies of the case sheets of all the patients from MIOT. “We have documented everything – all our findings during the post-mortems have been photographed,” he said, adding that a majority of the patients were old and had serious medical conditions as per MIOT’s records. “We are cross-checking our findings with the hospital records,” he said.
One body that had not been identified was subsequently claimed and examined, he said, and all the bodies have since been handed over to the relatives.
A probe was ordered and the police had registered a case of unnatural death in connection with the MIOT deaths.
Eighteen deaths occurred at MIOT Hospital in Manappakam over December 2 and 3. Fourteen of the bodies were brought to Government Royapettah Hospital for post-mortems, while the other four were sent home directly.
Venkat Murali, son-in-law of Visalakshi Shankaranaraynan, one of the persons who died, said there was some confusion over the cause of death stated on the death report given to the relatives. The police had written ‘drowning’ first, but the hospital had then made it ‘not known’.
The police brought over copies of case sheets of all the patients from MIOT on Wednesday
