Klaudios Antoniou finds father in Larnaca morgue nearly two months later — Cyprus Mail
cyprus mail reports that Klaudios Antoniou found his father in the unclaimed section of the Larnaca general hospital morgue nearly two months after the man died. The family had been searching since March, after hospital contact attempts and repeated checks failed to locate a record of him.
Antoniou said his father was admitted on March 19 with cancer, but the family was not told at the time. He said the case only came into focus last Thursday, after the family asked police to check hospital records and the body was found in the morgue, unclaimed.
Larnaca hospital records
Antoniou said the family received two calls from the hospital on March 26 that were not answered. When the family called back shortly after, hospital staff told them the patient had not been admitted. Antoniou said they were also told there was no file in the system and no trace of the patient, leaving the family to contact relatives and hospitals without finding any record.
The sequence matters because the family was trying to locate one named patient while the hospital system was showing nothing. Antoniou said the family later learned that the man had died at 10.50am on March 26, the same day hospital contact had already broken down.
Klaudios Antoniou and the unclaimed morgue
Antoniou described his father as independent and said he often lived or travelled abroad for long periods. He said, “He wanted to go through it alone. He didn’t want to have people around to support him” and added, “There was no file in the system. They insisted that he was not admitted, nor did he leave, there was no trace.”
After police assistance was requested, the family located the body in the morgue and received it in a closed coffin because of the condition of the remains. Antoniou said, “After our call to the police, we found him in the morgue, unclaimed,” and “There was absolutely no other attempt. There were two unanswered calls and since they were not answered, I lost the opportunity to bury my father.”
Okypy complaint
The family said it was told that patient data is deleted after death, a detail that deepens the questions around how the man disappeared from earlier enquiries. A complaint has been submitted to Okypy requesting an investigation into how the case was handled, and the family’s experience now turns on what that review finds about admission records, contact attempts and the morgue’s unclaimed section.
