The management of St Vincent de Paul Hospital has taken steps to ensure that an incident in which the wrong corpse was taken for burial will not happen again.

Answering a question by Mario Galea (PN), Family Affairs Minister Marie Louise Coleiro Preca said the incident occurred on March 23 and an internal investigation had been carried out to establish the facts.

The minister did not answer the part of the question about whether the burial had in fact taken place before the error was discovered, or how and when it was discovered.

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