A 90-year-old woman who had been declared dead was found alive by a crematorium worker in Brazil.
Norma Silveira da Silva reportedly died on Saturday in a hospital in the city of San Jose.
Doctors pronounced him dead and his body was placed in a body bag and taken to the mortuary.
There, the crematorium employee was surprised to see that the woman was breathing.
The man quickly reported what had happened and doctors took her back to a hospital room.
Medical staff provided necessary care but were able to determine on Monday that Norma was dead.
The woman’s friend, Jessica Martins Silvi Pereira, assured that she suffered from liver disease and was unconscious.
She was admitted to hospital on Friday where she was in very poor condition and her health was rapidly deteriorating.
This is how doctors told the woman’s son on Saturday evening that his mother had allegedly died.
The first certificate stated that Norma Silveira da Silva died at 11:40 p.m. as a result of a urinary tract infection.
However, her body was taken to the morgue and relatives were not allowed to see her one last time.
The woman eventually died
Pereira said crematorium staff who went to collect the body around 1:30 a.m. found the bag was hot and the patient showed no signs of death.
“When she opened the bag, she was breathing very weakly. And since he was no longer conscious, he couldn’t ask for help, he tried to breathe and couldn’t,” Jessica told the Natelinha news portal.
Authorities are investigating the incident to determine the true cause of this patient’s death.
Some people claim that Norma was placed in the morgue bag alive and that she died after spending so many hours without medical attention.
For their part, some experts assume that the woman actually died as a result of her illness and her advanced age.
In fact, Norma Silveira da Silva’s second death certificate states that the woman died of “septic shock.”
The story went viral and it was learned that the patient’s family plans to file a lawsuit against the hospital for its negligence.
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