Two patients in Slovenia were confused and one of them was cremated under mistaken identity, a labeling incident that Slovenian authorities described Thursday as “completely unacceptable.”
“Someone cremated their father yesterday only to find out the next day that he was alive, while another family realized that it was actually their parents who were dead,” Health Minister Danijel Besic told a Loredan press conference.
The two people in wheelchairs are of the same age, come from the same retirement home and were taken to the hospital in Selje (northeast) for health reasons in the same ambulance.
Two days later, one of them died and the wrong family was notified. After the mandatory forensic examination, she conducted the cremation and cremation of his body.
The error was discovered when the other person returned to the nursing home after recovery. Staff realized he was wearing the wrong ID tag on his wrist.
“In the 21st century era of digitization, this is totally unacceptable,” the minister responded to journalists, visibly shocked, adding that a mistake should never happen even if one of the patients is suffering from advanced dementia.
An investigation was announced after the prime minister rejected his resignation offer.
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