State nixes GMC forensic head's service extension

Panaji: The state government has terminated the extension in service granted to the head of the forensic medicine department at Goa Medical College (GMC), Dr Edmundo Rodrigues, who was placed under suspension after last month’s body swap fiasco.
The order revoking the extension in service granted to Rodrigues was issued by the department of personnel last week.

Two other staffers of the forensic department were also suspended after the body of Aldona resident, Januz Gonsalves, 24, was handed to the employees of the Corporation of the City of Panaji (CCP) for cremation after they approached the GMC to take the unclaimed body of Vishant Naik, a 45-year-old man who had died three years ago.

The body of Gonsalves was moved by his family to the morgue at GMC soon after his death on September 23. The blunder came to light when the family approached GMC to claim his body for a funeral service scheduled for September 29 and found it was missing.
Soon after, Rodrigues, together with junior technician at the hospital’s forensic department Machindranath Jalmi, and postmortem attendant Prakash Narvekar, were placed under suspension.
During the subsequent investigation, the case was moved from the Agasaim police station to the crime branch upon directions from health minister Vishwajit Rane. The minister also publicly apologised to the Gonsalves family and assured that a 24x7 advance life support ambulance would be provided to the Aldona primary health centre. The facility was inaugurated by Januz’s mother, Vyvette, on Saturday.
The goof-up also spurred the government to expedite the system of e-tagging bodies preserved in the GMC morgue to prevent such incidents in the future. A government official said a tender for the same would be issued shortly.

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