A new finding shows that the hospital had buried the deceased without notifying the relatives. The families of the surviving patients had been searching for their loved ones under the rubble or in facilities without knowing their fate.
The scandal surrounding the private hospital where the earthquake survivors were left to die continues. The earthquake relief workers discovered, by accident, that the private hospital administration simply left the patients, including babies, in the intensive care unit, closed the doors, and shut the hospital.
A new finding shows that the hospital had buried the deceased without notifying the relatives. The families of the surviving patients had been searching for their loved ones under the rubble or in facilities without knowing their fate.
According to the news site Diken’s Altan Sancar, some of the patients died in the intensive care unit of the Private Defne Hospital in Hatay because they were forgotten and were buried without informing their relatives. Relatives searched for the patients for days in vain.
A Hatay resident who lost a relative in intensive care said that the bodies were buried without informing the families. The citizen, who stated that he had been looking for his family and relatives until February 18, said that they had learned about the burial by investigating it on their own.
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