The Local Health Unit of São José, in Lisbon, was forced to review and strengthen its corpse identification procedures after a family realized during the wake that the body present did not correspond to their relative.
The incident caused great disturbance to the family, who only during the funeral ceremony realized that something was wrong with the identity of the body being waked.
The health institution acknowledged the severity of the situation and took measures to prevent similar situations from occurring again, implementing more rigorous identification protocols.
Local health authorities emphasized the importance of maintaining high verification standards to ensure that errors of this nature do not repeat under any circumstances.
