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You all know who it is any way.
A post-mortem is something like unravelling the mysteries of the ancient Egypt. The Pharoahs, the Nile, all have an interesting story to tell. More on that later.
In some countries coronial (only suspicious deaths) post-mortems can be performed without the consent of the family. Authoritative regimes would love to enforce such authority and power over the dead, in such cases like that of Salahs. As the recent events are moving towards the first post-mortem in the history of Maldives, i just thought that i will post some information about autopsies and post-mortems. Places like John Hopkins Hospital has done thousands of autopsies to date. The facilities they had when they started in 1889 is noteworthy.
So what happens during an autopsy or post-mortem investigation? Click launch autopsy to start the step by step process and participate with Dr. Baden on how an autopsy is performed.
A timeline of autopsy history can also be assessed through the above link. It is very interactive and am sure will be very enlightening to you all.
Medicinenet.com is another site where you may want to find more.
Another great online site devoted to the death is also worthy mentioning here.
Or if you want more, you may dwell in to the Great Pharoahs time. This is an excellent read from a chapter.
The patient’s skull, in some (but not all) representations, is malformed, with an elongated head, almond-shaped eyes, lantern-like jaw, protruding teeth and large ears.21 The neck is inordinately long and serpentine. In some representations the chest has a deeply depressed sternum (pectus excavatum) and in others, a protruding sternum characteristic of a pigeon breast deformity (pectus carinatum). The breasts are sometimes as large and round as a woman’s (gynecomastia),as are the hips and buttocks. These feminine characteristics are all the more striking because, more often than not, they are accompanied by a belly as prominent as that of a pregnant woman, as if to emphasize the patient’s fertility and to validate his claim that he was “the Nile which fills the entire land.”22 Moreover, the only nude statue of the patient known to exist lacks a phallus. In fact, unlike that of at least one other pharaoh, a nude statue of King Hor I, the patient’s statue shows no evidence of external genitalia whatsoever.
Enjoy.
did this guy who came from ceylon bring any thing with him.. i mean the pathologist or whoever would need some advance machines isnt.. or would they be using the things used in operations. gayoom know best after all he is now “father of post mortem” yeah.. dont forget also “father of tear gas”.
Interestinngggg….
Sorry to be using your blog for this act. It was one of the few avenues for me to release my frustrations.
I am a Maldivian doctor! In my short career so far, I have dedicated my energies to serving the people. The manipulated news that came in relation to the murder of Salah sickened me. The TV and Radio stated that the doctor who initially examined the body reported no injuries. This was a total and utterly baseless lie being spread by the authorities to hide their own incapacity to prevent the murder in the first place.
The fact of the matter is, the doctor who 1st examined the body, refused to sign the papers insisting that the body would need to be taken to IGMH for further studies as to understand the full extent of the injuries sustained. This was indeed , a highly praise worthy decision in such a pressure situation; none-the-less the right one too.
Far too often people jump to conclusions at the first instance. What may be visible on the outside, may indeed be masking the truth on the inside. The investigations at IGMH confirmed that the body sustained severe injuries. If allowed in public, the medical report clearly states that there were extensive injuries; some of which on their own severe enough to cause death.
It is preposterous that the police, health authorities (including IGMH and MOH) and right mided-media personnel have not responded to this barrage of mis-information that “no injuries were found by initial examining doctor”.
The police investigator who said on national TV that the body bled from the nose only after being turned by the doctor failed to mention that his plausible explanation was just that, and not facts. He also failed to say that there were clear injuries on the body (from torture or otherwise).
We are not part of the government/police cover-up. We have a duty to identify injuries seen on the body and infer a possible cause of death.
Our doctors didn’t do a postmortem because it is not permitted for one thing. The other more valid point is that we do not have a person with enough credentials for that procedure. (You wouldn’t have your appendix removed by a dentist, would you?)
I hope that you would be able to place this as a main post on your blog and help clear the air.
Latest news: Body to be taken to Sri Lanka… So Maummon cannot be the father yet!
What the fuck! you people are just blaming police for that! read my reasons at my blog before anything!
People, please try to contain your emotions. No f word please. Suja i read your entry and it had very good points. One being, why the authorities didnt handle the case of himendhoo deaths with same vigour.
I was so excited that i would be able to tell my grand kids that it was during my time that the first autopsy was carried out in Maldives. Well, any way, sadly it seems that it is not going to happen. I still might be able to tell my grankids that it was during my time that an autopsy was first carried out on a Maldivian. So not totally disappointed here.
It was a good start anyway.
We have now got the green light from the religious dhannabeykalun. Before it was a no no subject because it was against the religion Islam then.
I hope that other such cases and unexplained deaths and cases due to malpractice occuring in the hositals are also dealth in a same manner by the major political parties, Human rights commisions and media in the future.