Care Homes Accused Of Accepting Money For Bodies

SEVERAL attraction homes successful Belgium, arsenic good arsenic astatine slightest 1 Antwerp hospital, are accused of having accepted money from ceremonial companies successful speech for corpses of deceased patients. According to testimonies collected by user programme WinWin from Dutch-language TV station, VRT, nan deals sometimes progressive gifts including cocoa aliases champagne, but besides rate payments of up to €250 per corpse.

Despite a Belgian rule that states relatives of nan deceased must determine which undertaker handles their loved one, nan insiders study that immoderate institutions activity pinch alleged “fixed” undertakers and nan families are near without a choice, informed only aft nan assemblage has already been moved. Under nan law, nan families besides person nan free prime of ceremonial head arsenic well, but galore ceremonial homes run pinch a “fixed” ceremonial head arsenic well.

In summation to respective attraction homes, nan ZAS Middelheim infirmary successful Antwerp was besides named successful nan testimonies. Emails seen by user programme WinWin suggest infirmary unit guidance was alert of nan exchanges, though nan earlier investigations were dropped owed to a deficiency of evidence. Hospital representatives person stated that they are “shocked and dismayed” by nan accusations, and urges affected families to travel guardant pinch much information.

Johan Dexters, nan chair of nan Funebra ceremonial association, affirms that these types of exchanges are a persistent problem successful nan manufacture successful immoderate regions. However, since ceremonial board do not run pinch a registration that tin beryllium revoked, they tin often get distant pinch these types of deals pinch only a slap connected nan wrist.