The first institution in Pakistan to offer a certificate in medical-legal examination is the University of Health Sciences (UHS).
To improve abilities, ethics, and professionalism in medico-legal practice, the course will concentrate on forensic medicine and medical jurisprudence.
A doctor is in charge of inspecting victims of various crimes, including accidents, assaults, and possible murders, at a licenced medical institution during the medico-legal procedure. This is the initial stage of the inquiry that records the victim’s wounds.
The Punjab government was instructed by the Lahore High Court (LHC) to improve the examiners’ qualifications in medico-legal matters last year. The appropriate authorities had received stringent instructions from the court to ensure that medical examiners were qualified to handle such important cases.
Regarding the course
The Primary and Secondary Healthcare Department (P&SHC), Health Information and Service Delivery Unit (HISDU), Punjab Forensic Science Agency (PFSA), and UHS collaborated to construct this course.
It has been created as a four-week, segmented, hands-on training programme. This course’s objective is to give dental surgeons, women medical officers, and medical officers in general in Punjab practical training.
The course covers a variety of topics, including identification, sample handling, preservation, and electronic data management, as well as toxicology, traumatology, autopsies, medical law, ethics, and medico-legal report writing.
The training sites have been selected as the Forensic Medicine Department at Jinnah Campus UHS, Services Hospital Lahore, Jinnah Hospital Lahore, Lahore General Hospital, and PFSA.
