On Monday in Almuñécar, Spain, a situation as dramatic as it was particular took place: They left a woman for dead and just before delivering her body to the funeral home they realized she was alive.
According to El Español, the 70-year-old woman’s pulse was so low that her relatives called 911, thinking she was lifeless.
The doctors who arrived at the house confirmed what was reported: the woman had no pulse and did not respond to any type of stimulus.
As a result, the lady was presumed dead and the protocol to proceed in such cases was activated.
What followed was to lift the corpse and investigate the causes of death. While the judicial protocols were activated, the family called a funeral home to take care of the body.
With the judicial police, a coroner and the civil guard at the lady’s house, the woman started showing vital signs. Surprised, those present injected her with adrenaline to recover her constants and rushed her to the hospital.
Currently the woman is hospitalized in Santa Ana de Motril hospital, where she is admitted to the intensive care unit and according to them she will recover.
A similar case
In December, something similar happened in Brazil with a man named Jose Ribeiro da Silvabut the end is bleak: they wrongly certified his deaththey put him in a cold room and there he died of hypothermia.
Ribeiro da Silva had been hospitalized in the Central-North State Hospital of Goiano (HCN), in the city of Uruaçu, due to tongue cancer.
It was then that doctor Lucas Campos certified her dead on Nov. 29 from an infection resulting from her illness, according to local newspaper O globo.
After the family reports the fatal mistake, the police investigate the case as a homicide.
It happens that after leaving him for dead, he was placed in a body bag and taken to a cold room to prevent 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. never imagined he was alive.
The man was transferred to the funeral home in Rialma, the family’s hometown, about 100 kilometers from Uruaçu.
And the surprise was chilling when the specialists took him out of the bag to prepare the body for wake and burial. and found he was alive.
So it was that they were stunned to realize that he was with his eyes open and breathing hard.
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.
He finally died on December 1 of hypothermia, according to Police Chief Peterson Amin and local media reports.
Source: Clarin
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