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Deceased patient lies undetected in British hospital emergency room for four days

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Deceased patient lies undetected in British hospital emergency room for four days

At the Diana, Princess of Wales hospital in Grimsby, UK, a dead patient lay in a room for four days without anyone noticing. That reports the BBC.

According to the BBC, the person concerned, whose identity is unknown, died in hospital. It is not known what caused the patient to die. It is known that the person subsequently remained in an emergency room undetected for four days.

The hospital board admits the mistake and apologizes via a statement. “We are investigating why the patient was not taken to the morgue as quickly as we normally do ,” hospital director Peter Reading said in a statement. The hospital has now informed the relatives: “And I want to apologize again.”

Healthcare authorities are investigating how this could have happened.

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