Shanghai Officials Investigated After Nursing Home Resident Sent to Funeral Parlor Found Alive

What’s new: Five district officials in Shanghai are being held accountable, after a nursing home resident was transferred to a funeral parlor while alive.

In a viral video on Sunday, a body can be seen being retrieved from a funeral home car parked at the entrance of Shanghai Xinchangzheng Welfare Hospital, a local senior nursing home. A voiceover from what appears to be a witness can be heard saying that funeral home staff returned the senior resident to the nursing home, as the elderly person was found to be still alive.