An unusual and rare case of burn: challenge to cause and manner of death.

In the brought dead cases where the dead body is completely charred pose difficulty to autopsy surgeon in commenting cause & manner of death. Many a times, scene of incidence, the inquest report, history narrated by relatives and postmortem findings may not go hand-in-hand. Suicides by burning especially by females are very common in India, but charred (burn) body without conflagration in which manner is suicidal is rarely occurred and reported. “Char means to burn to charcoal”. Investigation in this type of cases by police officer is again a matter of his knowledge and experience. Here we are reporting such case; a well built, 26 years old married but separated, mentally stressed female living with her mother and brother since 3 years, was found in bathroom in a charred condition on 03/01/2012 around 06:30 hours. As per inquest, manner of death is suicidal. The autopsy findings did not reveal exact cause of death but raised the suspicion of homicide. So the present case report will make everyone to think over not only importance of cause and manner of death in case of charred body but also to reinforce the investigating authority for thorough investigation in favor of justice to the victim.

Study of multiple casual factors associated with varying degree of anaemia among rural pregnant women.

Background: Anaemia is a global public health problem affecting more South East Asia in India the rate is even higher and moderate to severe is more among the pregnant women. Moderate to severe anaemia is important contributory factor in maternal death and leads to various maternal morbidities. Just knowing anaemia prevalence is not useful until associated with a picture of the various multiple causal factors in specific settings. Aims & Objective: To find the prevalence of severity of anaemia and evaluate the multiple casual factors among recently pregnant women in this rural area. Material and Methods: A cross sectional study was done in the OBGY OPD of tertiary care rural hospital. All the recently pregnant women diagnosed to be anaemic and residing in rural area with no other chronic infection or diseases. The pretested questionnaire was administered to them for personal details .BMI was calculated and peripheral smear, Stool examination, and electrophoresis done in cases as per clinical findings. Results: Prevalence of anaemia was 86 %. Overall 44.3 %, 50.3% and 5.3 % had mild, moderate and severe anaemia. Severe anaemia was more prevalent in women less than 18 yrs (12%), illiterate (8.8%), lower class (7.1% & 8.3%), spacing less than one yr (18.2%), and inadequate diet (6.2 %). Most were suffering due to iron deficiency (77%). Conclusion: High prevalence of anaemia early in pregnancy depicts the pre- pregnant status. Adolescent need to be given health education and develop mechanism to improve compliance of iron tablets.