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The presenter does not hold back criticism of how Mário Oliveira Nunes was treated after being diagnosed with cancer.
São José Hospital delivered the wrong body for the funeral of Mário Oliveira Nunes, Manuel Luís Goucha's brother‑in‑law. The family realised the error moments before the wake. The hospital says it will open an inquiry into the incident.
A man's body was mixed up at São José Hospital. The family only discovered the error moments before the wake. The deceased was 69 years old and died on Wednesday at the hospital of cancer, a disease diagnosed in December.
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.
Relatives found that a different body had been placed in the coffin during a wake; São José Hospital has opened an internal inquiry.
Manuela Lupi e Costa has already been contacted by São José Hospital, which confirmed the mix-up to the widow. Mário Oliveira Nunes died on Wednesday, after being diagnosed with cancer in December.
