Oops! Isaan hospital sent the wrong bodies to grieving relatives

 

 

Daily News reported that the wrong bodies were sent to grieving relatives by Buriram Hospital. They were nearly cremated but the error was discovered just in time.

 

The director of the hospital in north eastern Thailand has apologized to the families and promised it won't happen again. 

 

The mix-up was discovered when an undertaker preparing a body noticed it was of a much younger woman.

 

Om Taoteethong, 47, of Ban Non Malai village and Lamom Insamran, 75, of Ban Alang village both died around the same time at Buriram Hospital. 

 

Suwit Seetha, 39, a relative of Om said that the family should have realised something was wrong - a large candle lit in front of the coffin fell down twice even though there was not a gust of wind. 

 

They should have realised it was an omen. 

 

He said that dead bodies should be clearly labeled and noted that if they had cremated the wrong body how could you put that right?

 

Meanwhile Phisit Insamran, 37, the son of the older lady who died, said that during preparations for bathing rites a temple undertaker had alerted relatives that they were about to cremate the wrong person. 

 

Phisit said that everyone was shocked. It was lucky that the villages are nearby and costs were kept down - and lucky that the undertaker (or mortician) checked the body in the casket. 

 

Director of medical services at Buriram Hospital Dr Rakkiat Prasongdee explained that the hospital has formal procedures in the event of a death. 

 

Contact is made between the wards and the morgue and everything is done from identification and address checks to washing with formalin and wrapping of the deceased.

 

However, on this occasion three bodies had been wrapped and were being prepared to send to relatives. A relative should have formally viewed the corpse and identified it as theirs and sign off on the paperwork. 

 

This was not done on this occasion. 

 

Dr Rakkiat said that hospital director Dr Somchai Atsawasutsakhorn had ordered a full investigation and could assure the relatives that such a situation will not happen again.

 

The director had apologized to the families for the distressing mix-up, he said. 

 

Source: Daily News

 

 

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Does it really matter? They were both dead.

What lottery number should I buy 47 or 75?

Typically the hospital director is just trying to save face, and shifts the blame on the relatives

it was only after looking at auntie Om in the box and thinking how she'd aged in the last couple of days did they realise something wasn't right.

12 minutes ago, Colabamumbai said:

What lottery number should I buy 47 or 75?

Either - they'll both be dead lucky.

 

 

5 minutes ago, MaxLee said:

Typically the hospital director is just trying to save face, and shifts the blame on the relatives

Save face? It will all be lost after the funerals.

3 hours ago, OneMoreFarang said:

Does it really matter? They were both dead.

Yeah, it does not matter until it happens to you.

40 minutes ago, MaxLee said:

Typically the hospital director is just trying to save face, and shifts the blame on the relatives

He gets the International Darwin Award of Muppet of the week.

Odd, usually the family collect the bodies and do all the preparation themselves.

Two families at random hiring a 3rd party to do the 'honours' doesn't seem very likely to me.

Every Thai funeral I've been to was open coffin as well, the error would have been hard to miss.

6 minutes ago, legend49 said:

He gets the International Darwin Award of Muppet of the week.

Just as long as they didn't get Miss Piggy and Kermit mixed up.

5 hours ago, webfact said:

Suwit Seetha, 39, a relative of Om said that the family should have realised something was wrong - a large candle lit in front of the coffin fell down twice even though there was

no Lao Khao in the room .. 

1 hour ago, Proboscis said:

Yeah, it does not matter until it happens to you.

If I am dead I won't worry about that or anything else.

8 hours ago, OneMoreFarang said:

Does it really matter? They were both dead.

Maybe not to an armchair comic like you.. but to the family of the deceased yes it does matter !

This won't happen again until the next time, just like a few cases in Canada and the USA.

Oops, sorry never again, promise,  promise.

Geezer

19 hours ago, Proboscis said:

Yeah, it does not matter until it happens to you.

When you’re dead NOTHING will matter to you.

"........ a relative of ...... said that the family should have realised something was wrong - a large candle lit in front of the coffin fell down twice even though there was not a gust of wind. They should have realised it was an omen."

The mind boggles - the rest of the world has meanwhile made it to the 21st century - me thinks!