One of the survivors of the Hanukkah terror attack on Bondi Beach was given a non-Jewish-sounding pseudonym when she was admitted to the hospital following the attack, local media reported on Tuesday.

Staff at the Liverpool Hospital in western Sydney changed the name of Rosalia Shikhverg to the alias “Karen Jones” in the medical records, possibly in order to “disguise” her identity, an investigation by Sky News found. New South Wales Health Minister Ryan Park has issued an apology to Shikhverg.

Shikhverg was rushed to the hospital on December 14 after sustaining gunshot and shrapnel wounds to the head during the shooting at a Hanukkah party at Bondi Beach that killed 15 and wounded dozens.

After being admitted to the hospital, “they cut my (wristband) and put my new band on with ‘Karen Jones.’ Without any religion,” Shikhverg told Sky News. “I was so scared and so upset.”

Shikhverg and her husband, Greg, said they were never asked for permission regarding the name change.

While hospital officials reportedly told the family the pseudonym was given to protect Shikhverg from being hounded by the media after the attack, she believes the real motivation was more unsettling: a lack of trust in the hospital’s own staff.

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Rosalia Shikhverg, a survivor of the Bondi Beach massacre and injured by shrapnel, was admitted to Liverpool Hospital in........

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