*Hospital Investigates Skeleton*

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If I didn't trust the source, I would never beleive this....

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad (Reuters) - A Trinidad hospital that found a skeleton in a small room near a patients' ward was investigating on Wednesday how a body languished for months unnoticed and who the dead person was.

An electrician carrying out maintenance work at a state-run hospital in San Fernando, in the southern part of the Caribbean island, stumbled upon the decomposed body in a small room on Tuesday, officials said on Wednesday.

Police said the body may have been in the room for as long as nine months. The room is located near a second-floor ward but is hardly ever used by staff.

Neil Parsanlal, head of communications at the hospital, said he had no reports of anyone lost from the wards but police were checking their missing persons files.

The president of the doctors' association in Trinidad and Tobago, Phillip Ayoung Chee, said the gruesome discovery highlighted security problems at the hospital.

http://www.reuters.com/news_article.jhtml?type=humannews&StoryID=520370

If you want a really good laugh, check out some of the other stories in Reuters *oddly enough* section.

Most hospitals have 'a few' skeletons in the closet....metaphorically speaking. ;)

This hospital gets the award for least attentive staff...how in the world could they not smell the body?? My whole house reeks if a mouse dies in my walls....yucchh.:(

The worst thing I ever found was a gigantic dead cockroach in our ICU med room. That was traumatic in and of itself.

If they didn't notice the smell....perhaps that particular hospital is always, uhhhhh........offensive to the olfactory senses. Makes ya wonder.

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