NewsX Exclusive: Sweepers conduct autopsies at Mumbai's KEM hospital

KEM Hospital is the largest tertiary care medical unit in Mumbai, with one of the busiest morgues, conducting over 2,000 autopsies a year. Shockingly, these thousands of cadavers are cut open, their organs handled and then sewn up, all by 10 sweepers and a post-mortem-attendant-cum-sweeper (PMA).

This is in blatant violation of a Bombay High Court recommendation that only trained specialists, and not sweepers – or safai kamgars as they are commonly known - be permitted to perform post-mortem work.



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