Son furious that his dead father was left out to rot - hospital say they have no cold storage

 

Caption Hospital: Coprse left to rot

 

A drama was doing the rounds of Thai social media after a Korat man went online to say that a hospital - that he wouldn't name - had left his dead father out all night. 

 

When "Singto Wachirapakorn" (A Facebook page name) reached the hospital his father had started decomposing. He was surrounded by flies and relatives couldn't go near.

 

He said he was furious that he had not been injected with formalin to slow decomposition and put into cold storage, reported INN. 

 

He claimed that he had been told that he could not take home his father's dead body after 6 pm the previous time they visited. 

 

Caprion: There's no cold storage

 

Sanook named the hospital as Khon Buri Hospital in the southern park of Nakorn Ratchasima province, the gateway to Thailand's north east. 

 

They quoted the director Dr Pattana Baosathorn as saying that there was no regulation forbidding a corpse not to be removed by 6 pm. 

 

In fact they advised it as they have no cold storage morgue facilities at the hospital. 

 

Sanook said there were always two sides to a story. 

 

Sources: INN | Sanook

 

 

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Is this the hospital?

46 minutes ago, Vacuum said:

 

Is this the hospital?

It's the brain surgery department.

They could have put him in a coffin at least.

Hospitals don't put bodies in coffins.

 

My g/f's great aunt died recently. The family brought the body home and placed it in a coffin where it was kept for 3 days, then it went to the temple to be cremated.

 

When my dad died back in 2010, his body was kept in cold storage at the (government) hospital in Pattaya (fortunately). Because he passed on a Saturday, we had to wait until Monday to get the Death Certificate processed and stamped at City Hall, then go to the Embassy in Bangkok to get a letter verifying that I was authorized to dispose of the remains, then it was off to a local temple to make the arrangements.

 

As dad would have been "on ice" for 5 days by the time we were ready to bring him to the temple, they (the monks) wouldn't consider doing the 3 day ceremony that dad's lady friend wanted (I was paying of course). We ended up doing a "quicky" one day ceremony.

We went to the hospital in the morning. They don't have hearses here ! Families normally bring a pick-up to transport the body. We were able to hire a couple Sawang Boriboon guys to transport dad in the back of their rescue truck.

 

At the temple we placed his body into the coffin where it was on display for a couple hours. Then it went into the ornate "cooler". We came back in mid-afternoon for the 2nd part of the ceremony (the "3 times around the crematorium" procession and then carrying the coffin up to the oven). Then we put the coffin into the oven and everyone left (they do the burn at night).

Leaving a body out in the open like that is bad enough, especially as they supposedly don't have cold storage. You'd think they would have let the family take the body immediately. 

But, like the story says, there are 2 sides to it.

A lot of the little "hospitals" in the rural amphoes are barely more than a couple examining rooms and are more like glorified "aid stations" passing themselves off as hospitals. Where the g/f's family lives, they have one such "hospital". I don't think it's even open (or staffed) after normal daytime hours so most emergencies either have to go to Aranyaprathet or straight to the provincial hospital in Sa Kaeo.

That may have been the case in this story as well. For whatever reason the person at the "hospital" wouldn't release the body (maybe no one had the right paperwork) and they had no were else to put it so it was left exposed overnight.
From the Sanook article it sounds like they are reviewing the procedure to try and make sure something like this doesn't happen again.

At the very least the body should have been better covered and in an air conditioned room.