DO YOU KNOW WHAT A VERBAL AUTOPSY IS?: It’s not a medical procedure, but rather a way of finding out what caused a person’s death, especially when they passed away outside a hospital. At the launch of the Verbal Autopsy initiative, Dr Okello, speaking on behalf of the Minister of Health, explained that this process helps communities and health officials understand common causes of death, so better health decisions can be made. | Times of Eswatini

MINISTRY ROLLS OUT VERBAL AUTOPSY PROGRAMME: The Ministry of Health has launched the verbal autopsy initiative aimed at introducing standardized interview questionnaires for engaging families of recently deceased individuals. The goal is to improve mortality data collection and cause-of-death reporting through structured population-level interviews. Verbal autopsy is a method of interviewing the next of kin or caregivers about the signs, symptoms and circumstances preceding death and is used in

The chilling autopsy report for Cuban reggaeton singer El Taiger revealed the artist's exact cause of death. El Taiger, whose real name is Jose Manuel Carbajal Zaldivar, died on Oct. 10, days after he was shot in the head in Miami when a drug deal escalated to a verbal dispute, the Miami-Dade Medical Examiner said in a report obtained Monday by NBC6. More details: http://on.nbc6.com/413Hc6X #eltaiger #shooting #report #cuba #reggaeton | NBC 6