Police launch medico legal facilitation centre at Bhubaneswar

BHUBANESWAR: Now, people need not run around different places to get medico-legal documents like postmortem and doctor opinion reports of their near and dear. The commissionerate police have opened a medico-legal facilitation centre (MLFC) at the Capital Hospital's police outpost from where people can collect the documents without visiting police stations and doctors.


BJD's Rajya Sabha member Sujeet Kumar inaugurated the MLFC in the presence of commissioner of police Saumendra Priyadarsi, additional commissioner Uma Shankar Dash and DCP Prateek Singh.

Bodies of road accident victims and crimes occurring in several police limits are brought to the Capital Hospital for postmortem. Their family members and relatives often run to police stations and Capital Hospital to get the postmortem report. Now, the MLFC will work as a one stop solution that will coordinate with the Capital Hospital and concerned police station, and give the postmortem report to the claimants, Uma Shankar said.

Police said the MLFC will facilitate quick start of a postmortem. It is often seen that the kin of deceased persons are made to wait for the postmortem for several hours at Capital Hospital for the arrival of the staff of the concerned police stations under whose jurisdiction the death occurred. As per the new initiative, the MLFC will now send its staff to the hospital to facilitate the start of postmortem if cops of the concerned police stations do not reach on time.

The MLFC will also end the suffering of police officers, who often run around the Capital Hospital multiple times to get reports of doctor opinion on injuries of people (either victim or accused in crimes). Three desks have been set up at the MLFC to coordinate between the treating doctors and police stations of different zones to receive the doctor opinion reports.

Our officers need not visit the hospital several times. The MLFC will inform the police stations to receive the reports once the desks receive them from the treating doctors. Similarly, people and police can get medico-legal certificates (MLCs) that are required in cases of accidents or incidents which led to injury or death at the MLFC instead of visiting the Capital Hospital, Dash said