DIRECTLY TO FORENSIC DOCTOR TO BE AUTOPSIED AFTER DEATH
Panorama.am
12:48 27/03/06
The order of the Minister of Health Norayr Davidyan, according to which
those who died at home must as well be taken to forensic autopsy,
has created a great stir. During the latest four-day sessions of
the NA Deputy Vram Gyulzadyan even announced that the above decision
gives forensic doctors an opportunity to extort money from “socially
people in need,” and later demanded “That order must be hampered from
being realized.”
To note, before this the autopsy of those who died at home was carried
out by local pathologoanatomists. And the above mentioned order passed
by the Minister is explained by saying that sometimes murders occur
in those very distant villages, or even small towns which remain not
only undisclosed but also obscure. Whereas, in case of compulsory
autopsy by a forensic doctor the real cause of death can be revealed.
At any rate, according to the information of Minister N. Davidyan,
up to no win 18 out of 78 cases of home deaths in Yerevan city murders
have been disclosed by means of compulsory autopsy.
Although Deputy Vram Gyulzadyan is concerned with the fact that
forensic doctors would get great amounts of money from forensic
autopsies, deputy Minister of Health Hayk Darbinyan informed us that
the autopsies are to be carried out free of charge irrespective of the
social layer the family belongs to. But are the doctors controlled
during their work? Is there a doctor who will reject the financial
“gratitude” of the relatives of the dead? Or is there a citizen who
will complain against the doctor in the state of mourning for his/her
dead relative?