Lucknow, June 27 -- The Uttar Pradesh government has simplified the process of post-mortem in the state and now only 4 hours would be required for completing a post-mortem.

State Deputy Chief Minister Brajesh Pathak, who is also the minister for health, has instructed the medical colleges to conduct the post-mortem in a maximum of four hours to reduce the pain of family members in their hour of grief.

On the instructions of the Deputy CM, principal secretary of health department Partha Sarathi Sen Sharma released new guidelines of post-mortem here today.

Districts where a large number of post-mortems are being done, there the CMO would make proper arrangements of doctors to perform the post-mortem within the time frame.

The deputy CM ...