Free from a hospital in Bangkok interrupted a funeral right before the cremation ceremony to tell the family that they had by chance given them the wrong corpse.
After discovering that the wrong corpse had been given away, employees from the Siriraj Hospital in Bangkok rapidly went to the ceremony and told the household “the corpses had been switched!”
Smooth of the fifty five year old lady who had died from cancer whereas infected with Covid-19 says he picked up his wife’s body from the Siriraj Hospital. The body was in a sealed bag and there was no title tag. He says he requested officers to make sure his wife’s body was in the bag, and they confirmed.
For Buddhist funeral ceremonies, monks usually chant for 3 to seven days, however since the pandemic, many have shortened the ceremonies to solely at some point for the cremation ceremony. Under Covid-19 prevention measures, hospitals ship the bodies of those who died whereas infected with the virus to cremation ceremonies and families are told not to open the sealed body bag to stop the unfold of the illness.
The husband informed Thai media that the hospital workers realised their mistake when they couldn’t discover the corpse for another family. Since he lost his trust within the hospital, he asked employees to open the bag so he could verify that he had been given his wife’s physique.
The hospital issued a letter apologising for their mistake, including that the hospital will investigate and stop comparable incidents from taking place in the future..