Pronounced Dead
Kelvin Santos, a two year old boy, stopped breathing during treatment for pneumonia at a hospital in Belem, northern Brazil. At 7:40 pm on Friday he was declared dead and his body was handed over to his family in a plastic bag.
The child’s distraught family held a wake throughout the night, with the child’s body laid in an open casket.
An hour before the funeral was to be held; the boy suddenly woke up and sat up in his coffin, muttering the words, ‘Daddy, can I have some water?’
The boy’s father, Antonio Santos, said: ‘Everybody started to scream, we couldn’t believe our eyes. Then we thought a miracle had taken place and our boy had come back to life. Then Kelvin just laid back down, the way he was. We couldn’t wake him. He was dead again.’
Malpractice involved
they delayed the funeral for an hour, in hopes he would wake up again, but after he didn’t, they finally buried him, but his father is convinced of malpractice on the part of the hospital.
He said: ‘Fifteen minutes after rushing him away for resuscitation, they came and told me he was dead and handed me his body. Perhaps they didn’t examine him properly. Dead people don’t just wake up and talk. I’m determined to find out the truth.’