LUCKNOW, Jan. 20 -- King George's Medical University (KGMU) has not yet shared the roster of forensic doctors for conducting panel postmortems at the university's postmortem house, despite its own request and approval from the chief medical officer (CMO), adding to the workload of Provincial Medical Health Service (PMHS) doctors.

Officials said more than 20 postmortems are conducted daily at the postmortem house in KGMU, putting a burden on the limited PMHS doctors.

Last year, KGMU had sought permission for its forensic medicine and toxicology department doctors to perform postmortems of unclaimed bodies and panel autopsies for academic and court-related purposes. The office of the CMO agreed and asked KGMU to provide a list of doctors ...