NEW DELHI : The government on Monday announced that it has made changes in post-mortem protocols to allow for the procedure to be conducted after sunset effective from today.

The move, union health ministry said, is order to promote ease of living by reducing burden imposed due to compliance to government processes.

Apart from friends and relatives of the deceased, this new procedure also promotes organ donation and transplant as organs can be harvested in the stipulated time window after the procedure, the union health ministry said in a statement. “Representations to the Ministry in this regard were examined by a technical committee in the Directorate General of Health Services, Union Ministry of Health & Family Welfare.

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