They thought he was dead and mistakenly put him in the morgue cold room for five hours

They mistakenly certified his death, put him in a cold room and there died of hypothermia. It’s not a script for a movie or a horror book, but the sad ending of Jose Ribeiro da Silva, in a shocking case Brazil.

Ribeiro da Silva had been admitted to Goiano Central-North State Hospital (HCN), in the city of Uruaçu, due to a Tongue cancer.

It was then that Dr. Lucas Campos certified her dead on Nov. 29 from an infection resulting from her illness, according to the local newspaper Or balloon.

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confusion and death

After the family reported the fatal mistake, the Carabinieri investigate the case as a homicide.

It happens that after leaving it for dead, it was introduced into a mortuary bag and taken to a cold store to avoid the decomposition of the “corpse” (which was not such) before burial.

Shocked, the family received the news of the death and went to the hospital to authorize the transfer of the body to the city of Rialma, where it was to be buried. He never imagined he was alive.

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“He was alive” at the funeral home​

The man was transferred to the funeral home in Rialma, the family’s hometown, about 100 kilometers from Uruaçu.

And the surprise it was disturbing when specialists took him out of the sack to prepare the body for wake and burial, and found he was alive.

So it was that they were astonished to realize that she was with him eyes open and shortness of breath.

The technicians called the Mobile Emergency Department, which verified that he was alive and took him to the Rialma hospital in very serious and unstabilized conditions.

In the end died on December 1 from hypothermiaas reported by Police Chief Peterson Amin and reported by local media.

family complaint

“It’s amazing what happened. my brother spent five hours in a plastic bag, cold. It was horrible, a situation like this is totally unacceptable” Aparecida Ribeiro da Silva said metropolisof his brother he could no longer speak or communicate.

The woman now whathe wants justice and that those responsible pay for the death of his brother: “I’m going to collect the documents and records of the funeral home, of Samu, of all those who participated in initiate legal action. My brother didn’t need to go through that.”

While the case was initially registered as attempted murder, it was classified as a homicide after the death.

“When the physician is so imperfect as to leave a person alive for dead, run the risk of killing her afterwards“, proclaimed delegate Peterson Amin forcefully.

Next week the Police should listen to the doctor and the family, collect information and the necessary documentation to continue the investigation into a shocking case, worthy of a film script.