A high-level meeting held by top city forensic surgeons to discuss the modalities of conducting autopsies on patients who have died of Coronavirus brought an important concern to the fore — non-availability of six-layer body bags to wrap such bodies. While Sion hospital has already written to the dean refusing to conduct autopsies on people who have died of fever-related issues and acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS), those at the meeting also said special care needed to be taken while transporting such bodies for cremation.

The meeting was chaired by Police Surgeon Dr S M Patil and attended by professors and HODs of Department of Forensic Medicine and Toxicology of three civic medical colleges Nair, LTMG and KEM – Dr Shailesh Mohite, Dr Rajesh Dhere and Dr Ravindra Devkar.