Essequibo family cremates wrong body after morgue mistake

A day after a funeral service for 71-year-old Odit Ram, who had succumbed to COVID-19, his family was left in shock after realising that they had cremated the wrong body, owing to a mistake at the Suddie Public Hospital morgue.
It was on Sunday when relatives were in the process of preparing for the funeral service of 87-year-old Nathan Fiedtkou, who died seven days ago and whose body was placed in storage at Suddie Funeral home, that they realised that there was a mistake.

While waiting on the body to arrive at Fiedtkou’s residence, his family members received his coffin, with his clothes folded neatly inside but no corpse.
When relatives of Fiedtkou realised what had occurred they became very annoyed and chaos immediately broke out at the Suddie Funeral Home in Region Two (Pomeroon-Supenaam). It was then that they were told that another family was accidently given Fiedtkou’s body and he had been cremated on Saturday.
Relatives told this publication that they are very angry and hurt over the actions of the Suddie Public Hospital morgue staff.
“It was our desire to bury him and grant him a grand send-off. We are not blaming the other family for this … We will say that it is the poor management at the funeral home’s fault,” a relative told Guyana Times.
The body of Odit Ram is currently at the Suddie parlour.