Body mix-up sees Buri Ram Hospital issue apologyBURI RAM: Buri Ram Hospital executives yesterday apologised for delivering the wrong dead body to family members of deceased 47-year-old Um Taoteethong. Hospital director Somchai Assawasudsakorn yesterday said the hospital will reiterate the correct procedures to staff to prevent it happening again. Um and Lamom both died on Thursday, and their bodies were moved to the hospital morgue. "Had the undertakers not opened the cloth wrapped around the body, I would have cremated a woman who was not my mother." After learning of the mistake, Dr Rakkiat said the hospital hastily contacted the rescue unit to swap the bodies.

Source: Bangkok Post October 13, 2019 23:15 UTC