but they find him living in the cold room

They tried to resuscitate her in every way, with all her strength, but finally they gave up: this woman, victim of the bad accident of the road which caused several wounds on June 24 and which cost the life to two people he gave no sign of life. Paramedics of the ambulance company Alert-Distress declared her dead, taken to the morgue in Carletonville, South Africa, and remained in the refrigerator. They did not understand that she was still alive and that they were condemning her to a death worthy of the worst nightmares. It was only by chance that this woman was saved, thanks to an employee who, by performing a routine check on the corpses, noticed just in time that he was still breathing: an extra delay and he there would have been nothing to do. Alerted immediately, the doctors took her to the Johannesburg hospital, where the woman, whose details were not disclosed, is still hospitalized for treatment after being reinstated and put out of danger .

Now, while an investigation was opened on the case, after the great joy for what appeared as a miracle, family members claim clarity on the issue and determine the responsibility from such a sensational mistake: "We all in the family in shock – one of them told the BBC – Now we want to talk to the police, paramedics and officials from the morgue involved: we need answers, that's all we want.Until now, there has been no clarity about what happened.

Gerrit Bradnick, head of Distress Alert, contends that there is no evidence of negligence on his part. "What happened – he told TimesLive – was only should not make us think that our paramedics are not adequately prepared. "Prepare yourself or not, it remains to explain how it is possible that a anyone still alive is put in the cold room of a mortuary and what checks have been made. The story, among others, is even more disturbing and casts a shadow on the standard procedures followed by doctors and paramedics, if only you think that this is not the first case of this kind that is recorded in South Africa. Seven years ago, a 50-year-old man woke up screaming in a morgue at Eastern Cape. And in 2016 another road accident victim was declared dead, but the next day it was discovered that he was breathing: in which case the discovery was late because five hours later he died .