Irish families could face delays holding funerals due to 'very real crisis' in autopsy system
- Many hospitals are no longer carrying out autopsies due to staff shortages and pressures.
- The Royal College of Physicians of Ireland has called for urgent government action to avoid causing distress to bereaved families.
- Around 6,000 autopsies are carried out in Ireland every year in cases involving sudden, unexplained, or unnatural deaths.


