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Epidemiological profile of drowning deaths: a cross sectional study

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Phad, Laxman Gangadhar

Dhawane, Shailendra G.
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Received: 19 June 2017

Accepted: 28 February 2018

First Online: 10 March 2018

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: The study was undertaken by me as dissertation study while doing Post-graduation in MD- FORENSIC MEDICINE.The study was approved by institutional ethics committee Government medical college Nagpur. Reg. no. ECR/ 43/ inst/MH/2013 consisting chairman, vice chairman and secretary members. And certificate letter was issued for the study with their signature.The proposal for study was sent to MAHARASHTRA UNIVERSITY OF HEALTH SCIENCES for further approval and the study was approved. With reference no. MUHS/PG-T/E1/FL.42/2690/2014 Dated:09/10/2014. And certificate letter was issued for the study with their signature.In India, consent of relatives is not required for carrying out the medicolegal postmortem examination its right of investigating authority so, the police inquest and requisition letter have been taken to carry out postmortem examination. The study was undertaken on the bodies brought for routine medicolegal postmortem examination.

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