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Elderly woman (92) wakes up in funeral home after being declared dead
Her doctor has been charged with negligent bodily harm.
PROSECUTORS IN GERMANY have charged a doctor with negligent bodily harm for declaring a 92-year-old woman dead, only for her to awaken again in a refrigerated room at a funeral home.
Essen prosecutor Birgit Juergens said yesterday the 53-year-old doctor, whose name wasn’t released in line with privacy regulations, could face anything from a fine to prison time if convicted.
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’d been taken heard a scream from the refrigeration room and discovered the woman alive.
Juergens says she died two days later in a hospital from heart disease unrelated to the incident.
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