Management of Dead Bodies after Disasters

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Pongsakorn Thitachote

Abstract

Management of the diseased is one of the most difficult aspects of disaster response. Dead body management should be performed in a systematic way to properly identify the deceased according to international standards and based on knowledge of forensic medicine and forensic science. Disaster Victim Identification (DVI) requires a multidisciplinary approach and has close collaboration with a range of forensic specialists. The Royal Thai Police is the main organization responsible for the management. In mass casualty incidents, personnel, resources and facilities must be allocated for the operations of recovering bodies, preserving bodies, post-mortem examinations and DVI, Including recording information of missing persons from the families. Thai DVI operations refer to INTERPOL DVI guidance, by means of collecting and comparing  antemortem with   postmortem data, using methods such as fingerprinting, dental records, DNA profiling and physical information, with the consideration of the DVI committee. Finally, the identified bodies would then be released to the families.

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Thitachote, P. (2023). Management of Dead Bodies after Disasters. Journal of Criminology and Forensic Science, 9(1), 215–227. retrieved from https://so02.tci-thaijo.org/index.php/forensic/article/view/260943
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