Valdelucio de Oliveira Goncalves
Two hours after being declared dead of respiratory failure and multiple-organ failure in August 2014, 54-year-old Goncalves, who has been diagnosed with terminal cancer, was spotted moving inside a body bag.
His brother, who came to the morgue with other family members, to dress Goncalves, discovered that the supposedly dead man was breathing.
His feet were tied, and his nose and ears were plugged with cotton. The Menandro de Farias Hospital initiated an inquiry into the incident.
“Hospital directors [would] meet the team who saw the patient to clarify the course of action taken,” a spokesperson for Bahia’s health department said.
Larry Donnell Green
Initially, neither paramedics nor the medical examiner were able to detect that Larry Donnell Green was alive. It wasn’t until after he’d been declared dead, placed inside a body bag, transported to the morgue, and deposited in a freezer that he was found to be alive.
Green, who, at age 29, had been struck by a car on a highway in North Carolina in 2005, is said, by his parents, to have suffered irreversible brain damage in the accident, resulting in thousands of dollars of medical bills.
His family has sued the county medical examiner and the former emergency workers for $20,000 in compensatory and punitive damages for negligence and emotional distress, and they want to ensure that no other families are subjected to the pain and suffering their family has experienced.
His family sued the county medical examiner and the former emergency workers for $20,000 in compensatory and punitive damages for negligence and emotional distress, and they want to ensure that no other families are subjected to the pain and suffering their family has experienced.
South African Man
After suffering from an asthma attack in July 2011, a 60-year-old South African man’s family assumed he had died. Instead of calling paramedics, they summoned workers from a local mortuary company …
