How do you explain this to the families??

Marie5656 · Post by **Marie5656** » Tue Oct 31, 2006 11:25 am

Hospital closure leaves corpses to rot

Health authorities in Cyprus are trying to work out how two rotting corpses were left behind in a decommissioned mortuary with the electricity switched off after a hospital move early this month, officials said Saturday.

A funeral director made the macabre discovery after going to the mortuary of a new hospital which opened in the Cypriot capital three weeks ago, to collect a body for burial, Cypriot newspapers reported.

Failing to find it there, he went to the old de-commissioned hospital Friday and found two corpses in freezers which had been switched off.

One of the bodies was that of a Pole, the other a Moldovan, local papers reported, adding that the condition of one was so bad that it had to be buried immediately.

"It seems the persons in charge did not exercise the necessary diligence and there was poor coordination," Health Minister Haris Charalambous told state TV.

Mon Oct 30, 8:51 AM ET

guppy · Post by **guppy** » Tue Oct 31, 2006 11:36 am

it goes right along the lines of the mortuary in georgia that was burying the dead in the field behind the building and giving the family ashes out of a barbecue pit. and charging the family for the cremation.

YZGI · Post by **YZGI** » Tue Oct 31, 2006 11:42 am

Of course the families could have asked. Hey anyone know where Grandpa is?

guppy · Post by **guppy** » Tue Oct 31, 2006 11:43 am

YZGI;445951 wrote: Of course the families could have asked. Hey anyone know where Grandpa is?

you know, i was thinking that too, didn't some family members ever miss the departed loved ones? i mean after a while i am sure somebody had ot wonder what the heck happened to so and so...............