- 40 % doctors, staff prey to infectious diseases in morgues
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23/04/1998
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Statesman (New Delhi)
At least 40 per cent of the doctors and attendant working in different mortuaries in the Capital are suffering from tuberculosis and other disease due to the prevailing unhygienic conditions there. "With about 29 post-mortems to be conducted withing a day, the doctors as well as the attendants are prone to tuberclosis and even skin diseases in this mortuary," said Dr K L Sharma a forensic expert and head of the police mortuary in the Capital.