we know we are confusing a few people this morning because we do not have our bbc breakfast clock on the screen. we are looking for it. but it is 6.28. time now to get the news, travel and weather where you are. good morning. bbc london and bbc south east today are joining forces at breakfast to keep you up to date with the latest news in your area. a pathologist, who carried out thousands of post mortem examinations across london, faces being struck off after a string of failings. dr michael heath was reported to the general medical council by bereaved families. they claimed he d made obvious errors while examining their loved ones leading them to believe they d cremated the wrong bodies. the cases expose wider concerns about the system,
No one new has applied for the position.
Carlina Charfauros, spokeswoman for the attorney general the chairman of the Commission on Post-Mortem Examinations said there haven’t been any new applicants.
There was one applicant scheduled for an interview in 2019, but he withdrew his application before the interview.
The government of Guam has used the money that would go to pay for a chief medical examiner to contract two Hawaii-based forensic pathologists and Saipan-based Dr. Philip Dauterman to do autopsies and post-mortem examinations, according to Charfauros.
Even before the pandemic, families whose loved ones’ remains had to be examined post-mortem waited for days or weeks for Dauterman to fly to Guam to do the exams. Autopsies for suspected homicide cases have to wait for the contracted Hawaii forensic pathologists fly out here.