Twisha's body kept in -4°C storage for 7 days. The ideal temperature is way lower

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• The body of 33-year-old Twisha Sharma remained stored at minus 4 degrees Celsius at AIIMS Bhopal for over a week even though authorities said long-term preservation requires storage at around minus 80 degrees Celsius.
• The issue came up before a Bhopal court on Wednesday while hearing a plea filed by Twisha’s family seeking a second postmortem examination at AIIMS Delhi.
• The court, while rejecting the family’s plea for a second postmortem and fresh forensic analysis, directed the Station House Officer (SHO) of Katara Hills police station to urgently identify medical institutions in Madhya Pradesh and other metropolitan cities that have ultra-low temperature preservation systems.
• Read Full Story Twisha’s family, which hails from Noida, had sought preservation of the body and a fresh autopsy, alleging lapses in the initial investigation.
• During the hearing, the Bhopal court observed that no facility equipped with ultra-low temperature preservation systems was available either at AIIMS...