HEALTH AND FAMILY WELFARE DEPARTMENT

LETTER NO.311855/Z1/2001-1, DATED 26.6.2001.

FROM 

Thiru Syed Munir Hoda, I.A.S.,
Secretary to Government. 

To

The Director of Medical Education, Chennai-10.
The Director of Medical and Rural Health Services, Chennai-6. 
The Director of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Chennai-6. 
The Director General of  Police,  Chennai-2. 

Sir, 

Sub:  Medico Legal Cases – Conduct of postmortem and disposal of unclaimed dead bodies – Instructions – Issued. 

Ref:1)  G.O.Ms.No.629, Health and Family Welfare, dated 27.09.95. 
      2)  G.O.Ms.No.289, Health and Family Welfare, dated 13.06.96.
      3)  G.O.Ms.No.584, Health and Family Welfare, dated 06.12.96. 
      4)  G.O.Ms.No.283, Health and Family Welfare, dated 10.6.97.
      5)  G.O.Ms.No.91, Health and Family Welfare, dated 04.03.98. 

I am directed to request you to bring to the notice of your subordinate officers, the following disposal of unclaimed dead bodies as a measure of reducing the sufferings of the people.  These instructions should be followed scrupulously with immediate effect in addition to the existing instructions in the matter: