Islam Muhammad Nurul, Islam Mohammed Nasimul
Department of Forensic Medicine, Dhaka Medical College, Dhaka, Bangladesh.
Leg Med (Tokyo). 2003 Mar;5 Suppl 1:S357-9. doi: 10.1016/s1344-6223(02)00132-3.
In this paper, we discuss the current medico-legal practice and future plan to improve the medico-legal service of Bangladesh which is rooted in the remnants of British medical jurisprudence. It includes clinical forensic medicine and forensic pathology. In Bangladesh all unnatural deaths are to be reported at the nearest police station and an appointed police officer should visit the scene of crime for investigation and to arrange postmortem if required. The forensic services of the country are delivered partly by academic staffs of Government Medical Colleges and the rest by the Civil Surgeons. Sometimes, residential medical officers in the district hospitals perform the medico-legal work. Most of them have no forensic qualifications except a long exposure in the medico-legal field. Currently academic and professional postgraduate courses are available. The chemical examiner's laboratory is situated at Dhaka with the facility of quantitative tests only. The Government of Bangladesh is trying to standardize the existing system. A Workshop on medico-legal services has been organized regularly by The Medico-legal Society of Bangladesh. A DNA profiling laboratory at the Dhaka Medical College is in the process of being set up. Such progress will be a milestone in the development of the medico-legal service in Bangladesh. However, with a few exceptions, teaching and training facilities are still lacking.
在本文中，我们讨论了孟加拉国当前的法医学实践以及改善该国法医学服务的未来计划，该国的法医学服务源于英国法医学的遗留体系。它包括临床法医学和法医病理学。在孟加拉国，所有非正常死亡事件都要向最近的警察局报告，一名指定的警官应前往犯罪现场进行调查，并在需要时安排尸体解剖。该国的法医服务部分由政府医学院的学术人员提供，其余由民事外科医生提供。有时，地区医院的住院医务人员也会从事法医学工作。他们大多数人除了在法医学领域有长期工作经验外，没有法医学资质。目前有学术和专业的研究生课程。化学检验员实验室位于达卡，仅具备定量检测设施。孟加拉国政府正在努力规范现有体系。孟加拉国法医学协会定期组织法医学服务研讨会。达卡医学院正在建立一个DNA分析实验室。这样的进展将是孟加拉国法医学服务发展中的一个里程碑。然而，除了少数例外情况，教学和培训设施仍然匮乏。
