The Death Doctor: 20,000 autopsies so far

Photo | 1 April, 2002

The Death Doctor, Bhopal 2002 "I must have performed more than 20,000 autopsies so far. No relative of a gas victim can get a compensation claim for a death without my certificate. It has been a nightmarish experience. Especially those initial first days, when we hardly came out of the morgue. Even after that some of the things that I have seen have been simply bizarre," says Dr. Sathpathy, the forensic expert at the state government's Hamidia Hospital, the only one functioning on the night of the disaster.

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