An investigation is now underway in relation to a wrong body that was released from Sigatoka Hospital to a different family over two week ago.
Spokesperson, Iliesa Tora said following this incident a directive has been given out by the Ministry that bodies stored at hospital mortuaries around the country will now have identification tags on them.
He also said action will be taken against those who release wrong body from the mortuaries.
Meanwhile, Police spokesperson, Inspector Atunaisa Sokomuri said that their officers in Sigatoka had to exhume a body of a woman who wrongfully buried by another family.
Inspector Sokomuri said that the mistake was realised when the family of the first woman went to claim her body and found out that her body had already been issued to another family with burial rites already completed.
They were later told by police that the 60 year old was already buried in Naveyago, a village in the interior of Sigatoka Valley Road on Wednesday.
Police then had to seek a court order for the exhumation after they realized the mistake.
Fijivillage received confirmation that the two deceased women had the same name and as a result the wrong body was given to the wrong family.
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