Mr. Abdel-Gawad, Undersecretary of the Ministry of Health in Damietta, said that a specialized technical committee was formed from the Directorate to examine the case of exchanging the two corpses of Damietta Al-Sadr Hospital.
Mr. Abdel-Gawad added to Al-Youm Al-Sabea that this mistake is unintended and the reason is the speedy procedures for washing and handing over the body to its families, and the matter was quickly remedied, indicating that the incident was referred to the administrative investigation to take decisive measures against any negligent.
Yesterday, Sadr Hospital in Damietta governorate witnessed the incident of exchanging two dead bodies with the Corona virus, as the people of one of the deceased residents of the village of Al Bustan in Damietta, who died the day before yesterday, had died after being infected with a lung leak and was washed and delivered to his family, and he was buried, but the people were surprised By a call from the hospital at dawn, stating that the body had been exchanged, and they demanded that the corpse that they received to its families be handed over and the body that belonged to them.
The Sadr Hospital in Damietta issued a statement regarding the incident of changing the bodies of the dead in the hospital, as a gesture to what social media reported about the occurrence of changing the bodies inside the hospital, and that what happened was the existence of two deaths in the intensive care department at the same time, and in the framework of ensuring the speedy completion of procedures Handing over the deceased to his family, one of the two cases was washed, washed and shrouded according to infection control procedures, and it was received by mistake by the family of the deceased who had not been washed yet, and as soon as the error was discovered by the hospital staff, the deceased’s relatives were contacted and coordinated with them, and each deceased was delivered to his family without any problems. The incident was referred for administrative investigation at the directorate.
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