A nurse receives news of her sister's death after a coronavirus infection. But another call from the Munich clinic changes everything.
- In times of the corona virus *, many people get sad news.
- So did Andrea from Unterhaching , who received the news of her sister's death from a Munich clinic .
- However, two days later, she received another call that made her drop her belief.
Unterhaching - In the corona crisis, many people experience strokes of fate. A nurse from Unterhaching is now reporting a particularly violent experience . Compared to Bayern 3, she tells her incredible corona story .
Andrea , the name of the nurse from Unterhaching, had received terrible news that her sister had died of the coronavirus *. She had been treated in a hospital in Munich . It was particularly hard to teach her eleven-year-old nephew the news of her mother's death. The single mother worked in a clinic for the elderly and was probably infected with the coronavirus * there.
Coronavirus story from Unterhaching: "Confusion" in a clinic in Munich
For two days and two nights Andrea assumed that her sister was dead. She was already planning the funeral . Then came a message that nobody had expected: there had been a “ mix-up ” in the hospital . Andreas sister is alive.
As Andrea explains in an interview with Bayern 3 , her sister was admitted to the intensive care unit of a Munich clinic the weekend before Easter . There she was connected to a ventilator. Andrea inquired by phone about the condition of the Corona * patient. Finally, however, she received a call from the hospital's death office - her sister had lost the fight against Covid-19 *.
“I was completely shocked and left my job immediately. I also work in a clinic , then I went to my family and brought the news to them first. I had to teach my 11-year-old nephew that his mother had died, ”she said in an interview. And: "There is nothing worse for a child than such a message."
Nurse receives news of her sister's corona death - then another call follows
Two days later Andrea drove to the clinic to pick up her sister's belongings , including her wallet, a photo of her child and the apartment key. When the nurse is finally on the road again, she receives a call from the hospital. "It started with the words: Please don't get upset now. It's best to sit down. There was a mix-up . Her sister didn't die at all. She is well so far, ”said Andrea.
Although she felt an incredible relief at first , Andrea was also stunned. "I didn't see my sister," she says, "neither before nor after this death notice ." This was not possible due to the strict corona measures *. “In hindsight, of course, you ask yourself: How can something like this happen?” Puzzles the nurse .
Everyone would have been in shock - above all, of course, the eleven-year-old son of the supposedly dead. "Then of course we hoped: Hopefully she really survived, she wasn't over the mountain yet! If the news had actually come again that she had died, I think we would all have gone crazy, ”says Andrea.
Corona confusion in clinic in Munich: Sister shocked by incident - "Such a mistake ..."
In the meantime, her sister has been transferred to a normal ward and is on the mend ( as of April 30 ). Andrea is still shocked by the mistake in times of the Corona crisis *. “Since I work in this area myself, I know that wherever people work, mistakes happen. Normal. But such a mistake shouldn't happen, ”she says in the Bayern 3 interview.
The clinic has now issued a statement to the radio station . One regretted the tragic confusion extremely. "The treating chief physician is in personal contact with the relatives. It is a human error in the administrative process, ”it says.
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