SCIENTIFIC ANALYSIS OF AUTOPSIES: FIGURES FROM THE MEDICO-LEGAL SECTION OF LIAQUAT UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL, HYDERABAD, PAKISTAN

Human society is full of variety stories associated with each individual from birth to death all is about happiness and worries, friendship and enmity, sincerity and jealousy. Forensic medicine helps the judicial proceedings by exploring the scientific realities behind the screen that is not visible to an observer or judgement maker. The current is based on the one year from January 2015 to December 2015 cases presented to forensic department of LUMHS. Total 217 cases were brought for autopsies from different areas of the Hyderabad region. Majority of the cases were male 174(80.2%) and 43(19.8%)were females. Top most cause was RTA (road traffic accident)98 (45.2%) ,59(27%) Fire Arm Injury 22(10.1%) AsphaxialDeath ,12(5.5%) assaults and 9(4.1%) were Train Accidents. Minimum age found was 4years and maximum was noted 75 years with mean and standard deviation of 34.13 +/- 14.91 years. Descriptive analysis was carried out on SPSS Version 22 and frequency, mean, SD, minimum and maximum were determined for various variables. Conclusion:Male gender is more involved with maximum cases from the RTA followed by Fire arm and most of the cases were from the middle age group.