An elderly care home resident who died of COVID-19 last week was misidentified and buried even as her family was being reassured that she was alive and well, her grandson said Sunday.
Meanwhile, a second family was notified that their relative had died when she was, in fact, alive.
Chaya Freiman’s identity apparently became mixed up with that of another virus patient when they were transferred between care homes, leading to the mistake.
Freiman’s family only found out about her death three days after she was interred, and then only by chance, after a fresh photo of the second woman — who had supposedly died — was sent to shocked staff at her original care home.
Fitusi said Freiman’s family felt it was “being lied to” by officials. “We have no explanations as to what happened to my grandmother and it breaks our hearts to imagine what she might have gone through, and that we couldn’t even bury her properly according to tradition and sit shiva.”
Read more at Times of Israel.
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That’s terrible. May the family have a Nechama bsoch shaar aveili tzion v yerushalayim
So they killed 2 birds in one shot.
Hashem yishmor. Are doctors in Israel the cruelest in the world?