A Study of Female Deaths Due to Thermal Burns at a Tertiary Care Centre in Mumbai, India
Journal Title: Scholars Journal of Applied Medical Sciences - Year 2016, Vol 4, Issue 12
Abstract
Burns are one of the major conditions causing serious morbidity and mortality throughout the globe. The burning topic in India is burn deaths of young newly married females for demand of dowry. A prospective observational study was conducted during a period of January 2014 to July 2015, considering medico-legal autopsies of 92 females who died due to fatal thermal injury. All these cases were analysed considering multiple parameters like their age groups, religion, area of incidence, place of incidence, period of day, educational status, socioeconomic status, marital status, method of burn injury, manner of death, cause of death, survival period and extent of burn injury. All the data was analysed by using Microsoft excel and tabulated for better understanding. Various conclusions were obtained and justified. Keywords:Forensic sciences, Forensic Medicine, Burns, Female deaths, Dowry deaths.
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Dr. Sunil Vidhate, Dr. Harish Pathak
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