Staff at a hospital in Thailand are suspected of secretly transferring or even selling the bodies of nursing home residents. Relevant organizations have already begun investigating the incident and are considering reporting it to the police.
Thai media outlet 'Khaosod' cited sources stating that at least 10 families were told by a nursing home in Prachuap Khiri Khan province, Thailand, that the bodies of their deceased relatives were 'missing' and could not be retrieved.
According to agreements signed between the nursing home and families prior to residents' admission, after a resident passes away, the nursing home would first send the body to a hospital for an autopsy. Then, a foundation would arrange for a vehicle to temporarily store the body at a cemetery, awaiting family claim. Families must apply to the nursing home, which would then notify the foundation before the body could be claimed. However, these families were told by the nursing home that the cemetery had 'no record of such person,' and that the bodies could also not be located by foundations in various places, exposing the incident.
The foundation requested the hospital handling the bodies to provide registration records from the past three months. However, the records showed the bodies had already been handed over to the foundation. The foundation's chairman suspects that staff secretly transferred or even sold the bodies.
The foundation emphasized that if these 10 bodies cannot be returned to the families within the agreed time period, they will take legal action.