Hospital staffers to be questioned

Hospital staffers to be questioned

JAKARTA (JP): The South Jakarta Police will question four
staff members at the Cipto Mangunkusumo General Hospital morgue
regarding a severed hand which was stolen and sent to a woman in
Setiabudhi subdistrict on Monday last week, an official said on
Tuesday.

South Jakarta Police chief of detectives Maj. Rycko Amelza
Daniel said the four were Mardiono, the head of the morgue, and
staff members Suminto, Subekti and Syaifulloh.

"The four will be questioned on Thursday," Rycko said.

Mardiono, however, said that the theft could have been done by
anyone.

"The renovation was going on from 6 a.m to 6 p.m., during
which many people were coming and going," he told reporters on
Tuesday.

He said that the body of Hendrik, from which the hand was
stolen, would be buried at Pondok Ranggon cemetery in East
Jakarta on Wednesday.

"The two women, who claimed to be family members, did not show
up to collect his body," Mardiono said.

Mu'nim Idris of the University of Indonesia forensic division
had indicated the cutting of the hand could have been done by
anybody.

However, Mu'nim said morgue staff members should be held
accountable for bodies admitted to the morgue. (06)