Family privacy must be respected at the heart of the Mullingar hospital incident: Sinn Féin TD



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Sinn Féin TD Sorcha Clarke said the family’s privacy at the heart of the Mullingar hospital body incident must be respected.

The Longford-Westmeath TD said: “Any information that can identify that person needs to be treated with the utmost confidence,

“Unless the family itself decides to release more details and put them in the public domain,

“Yes, today has been breaking news all morning, but you do not know what that family has been involved in to get to this situation, you do not know the conversations they have had with HSE up to that moment,

“And that is their right not to disclose that until they choose to.”

An investigation will be conducted after the family of a person who died of Covid-19 received the wrong body.

It happened at Mullingar Hospital last week, while HSE CEO Paul Reid apologized to the family involved.

The Eastern Ireland Hospital Group said it was an “extremely rare event” and was resolved once the problem was noticed.

The hospital will conduct a review after releasing the wrong body to the family of the Covid-19 victim

The family of a person who died of Covid-19 received the wrong body from a hospital morgue last weekend.

The incident occurred at the Mullingar Regional Hospital on Friday, April 24.

Covid-19 victims are placed in body bags sealed by funeral homes due to the nature of the disease, without relatives or funeral homes being allowed to view the remains.

The hospital called the funeral home moments before the service began to notify them of the error.

A funeral home had noted the name of the deceased in a body bag, despite the fact that his remains had been signed.

A full internal review of the incident is now underway at the Mullingar Regional Hospital morgue.

In a statement, the Ireland East Hospital Group, which operates the facility, said an error resulted in the release of incorrect remains to a funeral home.

He says that once detected, the problem was rectified.

The hospital group apologized for the distress the incident caused the families involved, describing it as an “extremely rare event”.

The HSE spokesman said: “I can confirm that on Friday the 24th of 2020, an incident occurred in the hospital morgue which resulted in the release of incorrect remains to a funeral director. After detection, the error was rectified.”

“We would like to offer our condolences to the families and sincerely apologize for the distress this has caused during this difficult time.

The spokesperson said: “The Eastern Ireland Hospital Group, together with Mullingar Regional Hospital, have convened their Serious Incident Management Team and are conducting a full internal review. The processes and protocols within the hospital and morgue to mitigate this extremely rare event of happening again. “

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