Grieving father in Paraguay opens coffin to say goodbye to his 'dead' baby son, and finds him alive; he is now in stable condition in a hospital
Premature: Doctors said the baby boy's heartbeat was undetectable
A premature baby declared dead by doctors was found to be alive hours later when he was taken home for a funeral wake.
The baby's father, Jose Alvarenga, was told by doctors that his son had died shortly after birth.
Staff from the state-run hospital in Asuncion, the Paraguayan capital, delivered the infant's body to Mr Alvarenga's home fours hours later.
The baby was declared dead at a state-run hospital in the Paraguayan capital, Asuncion
Two years ago, a baby boy from Leeds ‘came back to life’ 30 minutes after doctors pronounced him dead.
Medical staff at Leeds General Infirmary had tried in vain to resuscitate two-week-old Woody Lander after the little boy suffered a heart attack.
He was handed over to parents Jon and Karen Lander so they could say goodbye, but half an hour later the couple heard the boy cough and doctors started his heart.
Please tell me they took the doctors license to practice medicine.
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This happened in my town. Check ALL the facts. Baby born a 24 weeks gestation, 850 grams, born blue, without umbilical pulse. Declared dead, released to dad in a cardboard box. Now 3 hours old, baby starts crying in his box while dad is preparing the room for the wake. Baby rushed back to hospital and placed in incubator. Baby died this morning, 4 days old.
Paraguay is a third-world country, with sub-standard hospitals (but universal healthcare), no standard of care, no sophisticated equipment, and empty hospital shelves. Let me ask you this. In a country where the minimum wage is about $270/month and where many make much less than that (just happy to have a job) working a minimum of 48 hours/week, does it make sense to make all attempts at reviving a 3-month, 850 gram preemie? I hate to shock you, out-there, in the good old US of A, but this is the reality of life in a third-world country. There is nothing shocking in the story of this baby. I find it a lot more shocking when our patients coming for stitches at the emergency room must leave with their wounds still gaping because there is no stitching material on the shelves and the patients can't afford the 25 cents it costs to buy the suture kit at the pharmacy. Let's keep things in perspective...
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