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Medical colleges demand guideline on body donation

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Kathmandu, August 31 With increasing awareness of body donation after death, stakeholders have demanded that the government come up with guidelines for body donation and infrastructure to store donated bodies. They have demanded guidelines for body donation to facilitate government and private medical colleges. Medical students need bodies to study anatomy, identify disease, causes of diseases and treatment methods.

Medical students are taught about muscles, nerves, blood vessels and connection of muscles with bones under the topic anatomy. Donated bodies are helpful for students to learn about body organs and their functioning, said Nirju Ranjit, associate professor and head of department of anatomy at Maharajgunj Medical Campus. Medical colleges have been receiving unclaimed bodies from Forensic Department of Tribhuvan University.

They get bodies after filing an application in the respective police stations from where unattended bodies are sent to the department.

Such bodies are given to medical colleges after completion of official procedures. It is a long process and takes at least a month to get a body, added Ranjit. The problem is that we have not been able to get fresh bodies.

If the guidelines are made, it will help us get fresh bodies, he added. If not preserved properly the bodies start todecompose.

The government should make policies, guidelines and also come up with infrastructure to help preserve bodies and help medical students learn better, Ranjit added. &If there are guidelines and infrastructure, chances of getting fresh bodies are high.

In the absence of both, it has become difficult to get bodies when we need them.

We need bodies when a new batch is admitted in medical colleges,& said Ranjit. Lack of regulatory mechanism on body donation for private hospitals and medical colleges has prevented such institutions from accepting donated bodies, said Shaligram Dhungel, professor of anatomy at Nepal Medical College. The post Medical colleges demand guideline on body donation appeared first on The Himalayan Times.




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