Cape Town: In a weird and shocking story that we are going to tell you today a woman was traveling with her friends in a car when their vehicle had a head-on collision with another car on June 24th.
Interestingly, all the other passengers escaped without major injury, a team of paramedics believed the unnamed lady was dead.
The team checked all signs of life in diseased, including breathing and a pulse, but there was nothing, apparently, so they took her to the nearest morgue in South Africa’s Carletonville.
Though, when some technicians returned to the room later on, they were horrified to hear breathing coming from one of the refrigerators drawer.
And when they opened the drawer lock, they discovered the woman was still alive-she remains in critical condition however.
One of the mortuary workers told local media persons that “You never expect to open a morgue fridge and find someone in there alive. Can you imagine if we had begun the autopsy and killed her?”.
Declared dead woman turns alive in morgue drawer found taking beathes!:
The operational manager for Distress Alert department, Gerrit Bradnick said: “Our crew is devastated-we are here to keep people alive.”
“If there was any indication she was still alive, we would have treated her. This has been extremely traumatic for us.”
Local authorities are currently investigating what has happened. However, mistaking a patient for being dead is actually more common than one might believe.
A prisoner in Spain was pronounced dead by three different doctors but was later found snoring on the autopsy table in January.
Same kind of matter was reported in 2014, when a 91-year old woman was declared dead and spent 11 hours in a body bag before officials found that it was moving in Poland.
A senior forensic pathologist at the University of Pretoria’s Department of Forensic Medicine, Ryan Blumenthal said: “The diagnosis of death may be extremely difficult. It can fool you.”
