Monday, March 21, 2011

Dearth of corpses is hampering medical education in the state of ODISHA.

BHUBANESWAR
March 11, 2011
BHUBANESWAR: Dearth of corpses is hampering medical education in the state. A proposed amendment by the department of medical education to change the Orissa Anatomy Act to facilitate body donations and reduce shortage of corpses has been pushed to the back burner. At present, the Orissa Anatomy Act 1975 has no provisions to facilitate pledging of bodies for medical research or donation of bodies by the relatives of a deceased person, unlike most other states. The Act...

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