Scandal in Chaco: they were going to cremate her and her daughter realized she was alive

01/27/2021 11:38 AM

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Updated 01/27/2021 11:38 AM

In a horror movie situation, a woman found out that her mother was alive just before she was cremated.

It happened in Resistencia, Chaco, last weekend.

The case caused a lot of controversy in the local media and the details of how this episode happened are even more chilling.

Alejandro Dominguez, head of the Press Division of the Chaco Police, told

Clarín

that last Sunday, at 9:00 p.m., a 54-year-old woman made a complaint telling what had happened hours before in a Resistance sanatorium.

"According to the woman, on Saturday she took her 84-year-old mother to the hospital because she was not feeling well. There, the doctors decided that she should be admitted to intensive care. The woman, according to her testimony, went home and He returned the next day, the same Sunday he made the complaint. It was there that the Sanatorium

told him that his mother had died, "said

Dominguez.

What happened next is disbelief.

According to the police report, narrated by the Chaco police chief of the press, the woman, after learning of her mother's death, arranges with a crematorium so that they can pick up the body.

"For a matter of protocol, because we are in the middle of the Covid pandemic, the deceased are put on a chinstrap and placed in a drawer sealed with glass. The woman was allowed an hour so that she could say goodbye to her mother. At that moment, just as they were about to take the body away, the daughter

noticed that the chinstrap her mother was wearing was moving.

That was when she realized that she was still breathing. "

Then, the woman -the Chaco police report- called the sanatorium, which immediately sent an ambulance to take the woman back to the hospital.

"There they found that the woman was still alive. As far as we know until yesterday (Tuesday) the woman was still hospitalized with very weak vital signs," Dominguez told

Clarín

.

The woman denounced the Sanatorio de la Sagrada Familia in the city for presuming her mother for dead at the First Police Station of the provincial capital.

Armando Frangioli, president of the Chaco Association of Clinics and Sanatoriums, assured that these problems occurred "100 years ago."

"Before, when there were fewer resources, the obligation was 24 hours of burial. Nowadays, with the means and resources that we have, it should be less difficult to certify a death that is not," he told this newspaper.

He also clarified that "there are cases that may raise doubts."

"In very exhausted patients, with a lot of physical deterioration, a shallow medical control can end in this condition. It is clearly an error or it is a greater situation on the scale d of values. I do not think it is malpractice, it

may be laziness or lack of rigorous medical control "

.

"When the signs are very weak, an electroencephalogram can be done to see if the brain is still active. If there is no brain activity, the death of a person is determined," he explained.

The Sanatorium of Sagrada Familia does not belong to the network directed by Frangioli but to the Guild Medical College.

Regarding this establishment, Frangioli assured that they have a contract with PAMI and it is a "very good level sanatorium, with first-rate professionals."

The case was in charge of the Criminal Investigation Prosecutor's Office, in which Ana González de Pacce is the surrogate.

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