A German doctor is being charged by prosecutors for negligent bodily harm for declaring a 92-year-old woman dead, only for her to wake up in a refrigerated room at a funeral home.
Nonagenarian pronounced dead wakes up in mortuary
A nonagenarian who was pronounced dead woke up in the mortuary screaming.
According to Essen prosecutor, Birgit Juergens, the doctor, 53, whose name is undisclosed in line with privacy regulations, could face anything from a fine to a prison sentence if found guilty.
The doctor is alleged to have pronounced the seriously ill woman dead in March after a caregiver found her without a pulse and not breathing at a retirement home.
That evening, a worker at the funeral home where she had been taken heard a scream from the refrigeration room and discovered the woman alive.
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The woman died two days later in hospital from heart disease unrelated to the incident.
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