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"The widow opened the coffin to say goodbye to her husband and realised it wasn't him": Hospital São José handed the wrong body to a family

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"The widow opened the coffin to say goodbye to her husband and realised it wasn't him": Hospital São José handed the wrong body to a family

Hospital de São José, in Lisbon, mistakenly handed the wrong body to a family. It was the widow who, when she opened the coffin to say goodbye to her husband, noticed it was not the same person. According to family members, the body wore the correct clothes, but the identification bracelet bore a different name.

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