Mystery decomposed body baffles Paris hospital
Was the hospital waiting list too long or did the patient just get lost?
Questions are being asked at the Hotel Dieu hospital in Paris where a plumber working in the basement last week came across a decomposed corpse wearing hospital pyjamas, Le Figaro newspaper reported on Thursday.
Hospital administrators are asking whether the corpse could be that of a tramp who got into the hospital and donned pyjamas for some creature comfort, or a patient who absconded and was never found.
An autopsy is to be carried out to try to identify the macabre discovery.
But would-be patients at the hospital, located near Notre Dame Cathedral in the heart of Paris, may be perplexed to hear a comment from a staff member who preferred to remain anonymous.
"We lose about six or seven patients a year," he told Le Figaro.
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Was the hospital waiting list too long or did the patient just get lost?
Questions are being asked at the Hotel Dieu hospital in Paris where a plumber working in the basement last week came across a decomposed corpse wearing hospital pyjamas, Le Figaro newspaper reported on Thursday.
Hospital administrators are asking whether the corpse could be that of a tramp who got into the hospital and donned pyjamas for some creature comfort, or a patient who absconded and was never found.
An autopsy is to be carried out to try to identify the macabre discovery.
But would-be patients at the hospital, located near Notre Dame Cathedral in the heart of Paris, may be perplexed to hear a comment from a staff member who preferred to remain anonymous.
"We lose about six or seven patients a year," he told Le Figaro.
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