Coronavirus in Argentina: they were told that the grandmother died and they even fired her in the cemetery, but she was alive

09/12/2020 - 12:15

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What happened to a family in Mendoza was as distressing as it was incredible.

A woman, who entered a sanatorium in the provincial capital and later isolated by coronavirus with severe chest pain, was left

and handed over to her family to be 

, but finally - and just hours after the burial - it was found that

.

It all started at the beginning of September, when

visited her family doctor at the

(it remains at Federico Moreno 1519).

At that time, the

woman was

suffering from severe back pain.

After being examined, she was medicated and sent home.

On Monday, September 7, he returned to the health center with another intense pain, although this time it was in his chest.

"They left her hospitalized and diagnosed

" said her granddaughter, Shirley Hernández.

That was the last time her loved ones saw her.

Sitting.

María Dora received one of her children at the hospital.

It was not dead.

The story took a turn as dramatic as it was unexpected in the early hours of Thursday the 10th, when the clinic contacted María Dora's family by phone to report

.

Only three days had passed since she had entered the sanitarium.

"They called us at 1.30 am with the news that my grandmother had passed away.

, among others," said Hernández, who made the story viral through social networks.

"With all the pain of the soul and suffering the trauma and pain of that situation, we buried her that same day at 15:30," he added.

Indeed, the document that certifies the alleged death of María Dora - and that after receiving her relatives showed on Facebook - accounts for the pathologies: "

", "

" and "

- pending result confirmation, "he says. 

Death certificate.

The relatives signed the death certificate of María Dora without knowing that she was alive.

The concrete thing is that, due to health protocols, the wake of people who die during the pandemic is not allowed.

And the delivery of his remains is carried out

.

In this context, the woman's loved ones carried out the

.

"We couldn't see who they kept in the drawer. Due to the COVID-19 issue, they didn't let us get close," said Beatriz Leguizamón, another of the granddaughters.

Hours later, nervousness, disbelief and stupor took over the whole family because after noon this Friday from the same health center they called to warn that

and waiting to be picked up.

Amazing.

“They told us that she

.

My uncle went with extreme urgency to recognize if it was so.

Indeed and thank God, my grandmother lives ”, Shirley explained.

After supposedly burying the grandmother, the relatives verified that she was alive in the hospital.

The questions that were opened after the family itself confirmed the

of the health center were - and are - many.

The main one has to do with

and how and why this whole situation came to be.

"

or manager appeared. The doctor who made the certificate,

, says it was not bad will, he asks us for forgiveness and that we understand them,

. They do not give proper explanations, they do not know the moral damage that they did, "Leguizamón said on Saturday morning in dialogue with TN.

And he added: "

. Castro says he was wrong because the other lady was lost.

. We want to offer condolences to the family of whom we buried. It is incredible that this has happened. "

Anguish.

Beatriz Leguizamón told what they told her at the Santa María clinic.

The

who as soon as he found out about the novelty went to look for her at the clinic was, to say the least, surprising.

The man, for security reasons, had to enter the room where his mother was with a full bodysuit, his face covered and

.

"

", Ariel slipped when she found

, wearing a chinstrap and in apparent good health, trying to approach him even without being able to recognize him, initially, by the suit he was wearing.

Very recently, he had fired her in a cemetery.

After sitting down in a chair, the woman said: "I came here, but I can't go out. Now

."

"My grandmother is a patient at risk because she has diabetes and they

when her

. We do not want her to stay here, but we cannot transfer her to another place because everything is collapsed," concluded Leguizamón.