Local Forensic Science laboratory serve their best, helps in detection of poison and solve many medico-legal cases, however the requirement of toxicology laboratory for health care institute differ in many ways. Treatment of poisoning of a patient is an emergency, but its analysis is time taking procedure in Forensic Science laboratory and is of no use for the treatment of the patient. The role of the Toxicology laboratory in the treatment of the poisoned patient can be made helpful by enabling the clinician to deal with the case of poisoning more effectively by correlating the clinical findings with the laboratory findings when situated in the Institute itself. It is also need of ours that the doctors specialist in Forensic Medicine & Toxicology should take the responsibility of diagnosis and management of poisoning cases, as in M.B.B.S curriculum the same is taught in Forensic Medicine & Toxicology only. In medico-legal cases, there is also chances of destruction of chain of evidence due to improper handling, destruction of time bound samples and time taking procedures.
