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RIO DE JANEIRO (AFP) - A Brazilian woman in her 60s being treated in hospital for pneumonia was given up for dead by her attending physician, and sent to the morgue too soon, O Globo newspaper reported Sunday.
The doctor felt no vital signs, ran tests and pronounced her dead. She was sent to the morgue and spent at least two hours in a plastic body bag.
“I went to give my mom one last hug, and I could feel that she was breathing. I screamed out -- my mom is alive! And they all looked at me like I was crazy,” Rosangela Celestrino, the patient‘s daughter, told the paper.
“Not only did I have to go collect my mom from a cold storage drawer at the morgue, but when I got there, I find her still breathing,” Celestrino went on.
Hospital officials said the patient, Rosa Celestrino de Assis, had two strokes and had been on assisted breathing. At 7:30 pm local time Friday, a nurse phoned the attending doctor because she did not show vital signs. The doctor confirmed her death and sent her to the morgue.
Hospital director Manoel Moreira Filho said the mistake was identified at about 10:00 pm, and the patient was immediately intubated and put back on life support.
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의사실수로 멀쩡한 환자 영안실 안치
브라질의 한 병원에서 폐렴 치료를 받던 60대 여성이 주치의의 실수로 산 채로 영안실에 ’안치‘됐다고 현지 일간지 오 글로보가 2 5일(이하 현지시각) 보도했다.
신문에 따르면 담당 간호사는 지난 23일 오후 7시30분께 로사 셀레스트리노 데 아시스 씨의 생명 징후가 보이지 않자 주치의에게 전화했고, 의사는 이를 확인한 뒤 검사를 거쳐 사망을 선고했다.
영안실에 보내진 그녀는 최소 2시간 동안 시신용 비닐봉지에 갇혀 있었다.
딸인 로산겔라 셀레스트리노 씨는 “어머니를 마지막으로 안으려 했을 때 어머니 가 숨을 쉬고 있다는 것을 느낄 수 있었다”면서 “`엄마가 살아 있어요!’라고 소리치 자 모두 나를 미친 사람처럼 쳐다봤다”고 말했다.
병원의 마노엘 모레이라 필로 이사는 오후 10시께 실수가 확인됐다면서 이에 따 라 즉각 환자에게 관을 삽입하고 생명유지장치를 다시 부착했다고 밝혔다.
병원측은 환자가 과거 두 차례 뇌졸중을 겪었고, 그동안 호흡보조기에 의존해 연명하고 있었다고 덧붙였다.
