Recent blunders

July 26, 2006 Government confirms mixing up of two bodies at Fu Shan Public Mortuary, but denies workers were negligent. It later emerges police are responsible

March 2006 Fu Shan Public Mortuary releases the wrong body for cremation, leaving families of two men in shock. Inquiry finds two workers covered up the blunder. Families receive HK$50,000 each in compensation

July 2005 Photos of bodies piled on top of each other force health officials to apologise and admit the practice occurs in the city's three public mortuaries

January 2000 Princess Margaret Hospital apologies and pays undisclosed compensation after mortuary staff give the wrong body to a family to cremate