A dramatic end to a Brazilian who was accidentally placed in a mortuary for hours
Coincidence and the quick observation of a worker in a burial office saved the life of a man, who was mistakenly placed in the mortuary, only to be found alive after that, but after being rescued, he died two days later.
Brazilian Jose Ribeiro was hospitalized due to advanced tongue cancer, and a doctor announced his death at a hospital in Goiás, central Brazil, after which the 62-year-old man was placed in a body bag and stored inside the refrigerator in the morgue for five hours, before being transferred to the office. The burial was to hold the funeral, but the worker on shift noticed, shockingly, that the man's eyes were open and he was breathing.
As a result, the man was taken to the hospital, but he died two days later, after apparently developing hypothermia from the refrigerator.
According to the Daily Star, the doctor who signed Ribeiro's death certificate has since been suspended and is now being investigated for an alleged murder.
Meanwhile, Ribeiro's family is still trying to deal with how Ribeiro ended up needlessly dead.
The burial office had informed his sister, Aparecida, of the incident, who rushed to the funeral parlour, before taking her brother to Rialma Municipal Hospital.
But the damage appears to have been done.
"What happened is unbelievable," said Aparecida.
My brother spent five hours in a refrigerated plastic bag. “It was horrible. Such a situation is unacceptable.”
Police, after originally believing the accident to have been the result of a mistake, now believe his death may have been intentional.
"The cause of death is hypothermia, which increases the responsibility of the doctor, so we will change the classification of the investigation, which was previously classified as attempted murder, today (Friday), as a completed homicide, due to the possibility of malice," the police said in a statement.
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