The Saudi state-owned Al Arabiya TV channel aired a report on a strange crime committed by workers in a hospital morgue in Salam City, Cairo, who sold the remains of a dead infant.
The incident began when a woman brought her sick infant to a hospital.
The doctors advised her to admit him to stay in the hospital to receive the necessary treatment, as he suffered from a rare disease.
Two weeks later, the mother returned to ask about her son, where medical staff informed her that he had died from the illness, and that the body was in the hospital morgue.
Immediately, the mother went to the morgue but discovered that her child’s body had disappeared. She then filed a report with the local Police Department.
Upon investigating the incident, it was found that the main culprits were a a hospital worker and a woman in charge of the morgue.
They sold the child’s body for LE200 to someone who wanted to bury the child’s body together with his grandmother.
When the morgue and hospital workers were interrogated, they admitted to selling the child’s body because his family did not ask about him.
After investigating the incident, the Salam Public Prosecution office ordered the exhumation of the child’s body from the grave to take samples, analyze them, and determine the cause of his death.
It also ordered the defendants to be detained.
