A 54 year old Valdelucio
Goncalves (pictured
above) was found alive
inside a body bag after
doctors declared him
dead. His grieving younger brother got the
shock of his life after he
found Valdelucio
'wriggling around' inside
a zipped-up body bag in
a morgue in Brazil. Doctors claimed the man
had suffered
"respiratory and multiple
organ failure" and
declared him dead a few
hours after his family took him to the hospital
on Saturday August
23rd. His family then
took what they believed
was his corpse to the
morgue inside the Menandro de Farias
General Hospital in
Salvador, northeast
Brazil. The next morning Val's
brother Walterio was
allowed into the morgue
to dress his body ready
for his funeral later in the
day, only to get the shock of his life.
Continue... As Val's brother
approached the body
bag, which had been laid
on a table top all night,
he saw it moving.
Walterio told Brazil's G1 website "We had already
made all the
arrangements for
my brother's
funeral. All I needed
to do was put some new clothes on him,
so he'd be ready for
the undertaker to
come and collect
him. "Workers at the
morgue let me in,
and showed me
where he was lying,
in a zipped-up body
bag. But as I got closer I could see it
wriggling. Then I
saw it raising and
falling as if he was
breathing. "I went crazy and
shouted for the
medical team, the
nurse, so they could
see what was
happening. They checked him and
confirmed that he
was still alive." His niece Patricia Cintra
said: "We were worried
about him and
thought he'd be
better off in
hospital, that they'd
take better care of him that we could at
home. It was a
shock to all of us
when they called to
tell us he'd passed
away. But we started making the
funeral
arrangements. "By Sunday
morning everything
was sorted. We'd
paid for his death
notice in a
newspaper, bought the coffin and
booked his funeral. "His feet had
already been tied
together and his
nose and ears
stuffed with cotton
wool." After he was found to be
alive, Val was rushed
back to the intensive
care unit of the same
hospital which wrongly
declared him dead and after checking him, he
was transferred to
another hospital, Santo
Antonio in Salvador. In a letter he wrote
yesterday, Val, who
cannot speak, said he
saw death. He wrote: "I, Valdelucio, saw
death at my feet,
but my faith was so
great that I was
cured. Before Irma
Dulce I said, do a miracle in me, and
she heard my
prayer. I saw my
mother telling me,
son, hold onto her
and you will be saved." The health department
for the state of Bahia ave
said they will open an
inquiry into the blunder. "We will meet with
the whole team
involved in the
patient's care to
clarify the chain of
events which allowed this to
happen." www.pijango..com.es/2014/08/man-discovers-dead-sibling-moving.html?m=1

Talk about "second chance"