Woman ‘comes back from the dead’: Horrified crematorium worker finds 90-year-old still breathing in her body bag hours after she was declared dead by doctors in Brazil
- Norma was declared dead on Saturday but found still breathing in a body bag
- She was taken back to her ward but died in the early hours of Monday morning
A 90-year-old woman declared dead by doctors was found alive in a body bag by a horrified crematorium worker in Brazil.
Norma Silveira da Silva was still breathing when the shocked worker found her skin was still warm hours after she had been pronounced dead at the Sao Jose Regional Hospital, in Greater Florianopolis on November 25 at 11:40pm.
Hospital officials told local media that they are investigating how she came to be sent to the morgue while she was still alive – and left in the body bag for nearly two hours before she was found at 1:30am on Sunday.
Norma sadly died in the early hours of Monday morning after being rushed back to her ward.
Caregiver Jessica Martins Silvi Pereira, 30, who had gone with her to the hospital, said Norma’s family now plans to sue the hospital. She said: ‘It’s a case of neglect that I would not wish on anyone.’
Picture shows Norma Silveira da Silva, 90, in the hospital, undated
The Sao Jose Regional Hospital, in Greater Florianopolis, Brazil, where Norma Silveira da Silva was found still alive after being declared dead on Saturday
‘On Saturday afternoon, I went to visit her and she opened her eye,’ Jessica told local media.
‘She didn’t have much stimulation, but she managed to open her eye and saw that we were there.’
But by Saturday evening, the family received notice Norma had died.
Her first death certificate, dated 25th November, gives her cause of death as an infection.
Jessica said the body was sent to the morgue without time for the family to see her.
She said that the crematorium worker had then immediately seen that Norma was alive, adding: ‘When he opened the bag she was breathing very weakly.
‘And, as she was no longer conscious, she couldn’t ask for help, she tried to breathe and couldn’t.
‘I mean, from 11:40 pm until 1:30 am she was inside the bag almost dying asphyxiated.’
Norma’s family have still not been told what her cause of death was, according to Jessica.
In the second death certificate issued, seen by local media, the document lists the cause of death as ‘septic shock’ caused by ‘sepsis with undefined focus’.
Picture shows the first death certificate of Norma Silveira da Silva, which listed her cause of death as an infection
Brazil’s Medical Ethics Committee and the Death Commission will also investigate the case, according to local media reports.
The Regional Council of Medicine of the State of Santa Catarina stated that it ‘was aware of the situation and will institute appropriate procedures to monitor the case’.
Norma was cremated on 27th November.
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