A hospital administration in the German city of Hanover apologized for a mistake that led to the burning of the body of a Turkish citizen due to confusion between him and another deceased, and expressed great regret over the confusion between the two bodies, offering condolences to the families of the Turkish and German families.
And it indicated in a statement that it “will not hold a press conference separately from the incident.”
In a related development, a spokesman for the German Ministry of Health, Sebastian Golde, stressed the necessity of reviewing the local authorities in such incidents, pointing out that the police had opened an investigation into the matter, and that he had no additional information in this regard.
Abdul Qadir Sarghan died on December 14 at the Hanover Medical College Hospital, where confusion occurred between his body and the body of a German who died at the age of 81 on the fifth of the same month in the hospital.
And at the request of the German family, the hospital administration transferred the body of the Turkish Sargen to the crematorium, thinking that it was the body of the eighty-year-old German.
The German family kept the ashes of the burnt body, believing that it was their octogenarian death, while the Turkish family discovered the fatal mistake when they wanted to wash the body of their deceased before he was buried according to Islamic rituals.
When the Turkish family reviewed the hospital administration, they were stunned by the answer that pained them after they learned that the body of their deceased had been cremated, and they filed a judicial complaint with the authorities.