The case of a Brazilian man is reminiscent of a zombie movie, who was enclosed in a body bag, alive and breathing normally, five hours after being wrongly pronounced dead.
"The employee at the funeral home called me and desperately asked me to go there, saying my brother was alive," the man's sister said of the incident, which occurred late last month at the Estadual do Centro-Norte hospital.
According to the New York Post, Jose Ribeiro da Silva, 62, was pronounced dead on November 29, with officials citing complications from oral cancer as the official cause of death. The hospital even gave his family a death certificate.
The 62-year-old's sister said she learned the news around 8 p.m., at which time the 62-year-old's body was given to the family so they could begin making funeral arrangements. From there, da Silva spent five hours in a body bag as he was transported from the medical center to a funeral home at least 62 miles away.
About an hour after midnight, workers at the funeral home realized a terrible mistake had been made. An employee opening the bag found that the 62-year-old's eyes were open and he was still breathing, albeit with difficulty.
They then alerted emergency services, who took the man to the hospital, where he is still in the hospital, while the 62-year-old's family was also informed of the fiasco.
The mistake reportedly occurred when one of the doctors, who was treating da Silva for oral cancer, thought he was dead due to lack of breathing. However, he was breathing through a tracheotomy in the front of his throat.
"It's unbelievable what happened, my brother spent five hours in a plastic bag, frozen," said the 62-year-old's sister, who made a complaint to the police on 30 November. "Such a situation is totally unacceptable."
Source: Proto Thema
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