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Tuesday 26 August 2014

Grieving brother discovers 'dead' sibling moving inside zipped-up body bag in morgue

54 year old Valdelucio Goncalves (pictured above) was found alive inside a body bag after doctors declared him dead. His grieving younger brother got the shock of his life after he found Valdelucio 'wriggling around' inside a zipped-up body bag in a morgue in Brazil.

Doctors claimed the man had suffered "respiratory and multiple organ failure" and declared him dead a few hours after his family took him to the hospital on Saturday August 23rd. His family then took what they believed was his corpse to the morgue inside the Menandro de Farias General Hospital in Salvador, northeast Brazil.

The next morning Val's brother Walterio was allowed into the morgue to dress his body ready for his funeral later in the day, only to get the shock of his life. Continue...



As Val's brother approached the body bag, which had been laid on a table top all night, he saw it moving. Walterio told Brazil's G1 website
"We had already made all the arrangements for my brother's funeral. All I needed to do was put some new clothes on him, so he'd be ready for the undertaker to come and collect him.
"Workers at the morgue let me in, and showed me where he was lying, in a zipped-up body bag. But as I got closer I could see it wriggling. Then I saw it raising and falling as if he was breathing.
"I went crazy and shouted for the medical team, the nurse, so they could see what was happening. They checked him and confirmed that he was still alive."

His niece Patricia Cintra said:
"We were worried about him and thought he'd be better off in hospital, that they'd take better care of him that we could at home. It was a shock to all of us when they called to tell us he'd passed away. But we started making the funeral arrangements.
"By Sunday morning everything was sorted. We'd paid for his death notice in a newspaper, bought the coffin and booked his funeral.
"His feet had already been tied together and his nose and ears stuffed with cotton wool."
After he was found to be alive, Val was rushed back to the intensive care unit of the same hospital which wrongly declared him dead and after checking him, he was transferred to another hospital, Santo Antonio in Salvador.

In a letter he wrote yesterday, Val, who cannot speak, said he saw death. He wrote:
"I, Valdelucio, saw death at my feet, but my faith was so great that I was cured. Before Irma Dulce I said, do a miracle in me, and she heard my prayer. I saw my mother telling me, son, hold onto her and you will be saved."
The health department for the state of Bahia ave said they will open an inquiry into the blunder.
"We will meet with the whole team involved in the patient's care to clarify the chain of events which allowed this to happen."

52 comments:

Unknown said...

Instead of u to thank GOD, u re thanking one woman!! Thank u Lord for a life saved

joy Egbunu said...

Dayum! Wat a lucky fella!

Gift Lawrence said...

this is serious. hold on to ur faith

NaNcY DreW said...

2nd chance @ life
Sumtimes is gud 2 tk dead body 2 d morgue live it dere 4 sumdays cuz u neva can tell. Dis just reminded me of 2 soap operas 2nd chance and Passions

Anonymous said...

Strange but true

haters-slayer said...

thank Gos for your life

confessor said...

God is good ooo,he is lucky he wasn't 6ft below b4 moving.. it's a miracle

Anonymous said...

Can't believe I opened this post. Mtcheeeeeewwwww

Anonymous said...

Hiya

Anonymous said...

Thank God for everything

Anonymous said...

Waooooo, gideonogidi14324@gmail.com

Unknown said...

To God be the glory. It's indeed a miracle

Unknown said...

One of the best news I av heard today

Unknown said...

das lyfe 4 u, strange tins happn here & dre

Anonymous said...

hmmmmmm spiritual abeg me no fit talk that one chemicalx52003@yahoo.com

Unknown said...

THATS gud

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Unknown said...

THANK GOD FOR D GIFT OF LIFE.....
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ZB

Unknown said...

This is indeed a miracle.how I wish everyone would be given a second

ary said...

They don't seem to embalm! If they did, he'd be long gone!

Sisi Vales said...

Thank God for him

Unknown said...

a.k.a EDWIN CHINEDU AZUBUKO said...
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Very lucky somebody.....
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***CURRENTLY IN JUPITER***

Anonymous said...

Dat was a miracle 4rm God,thnks 2 God 4 his life.

Anonymous said...

Amazing! Lucky he could breathe after the cotton wool was stuffed up his nose!

Kimmy*****

Anonymous said...

Tank you Jesus for d life of dis young man.temtem! Temtem!! Temtem!!! For Jesus....

Unknown said...

"The health department of the state ,promise to open an enquiry into the blunder" God punish devil,if this happen in 9ja which govt will sneeze talk of opening inquiry. Smh

Unknown said...

dis is strange

Unknown said...

dis is very strange

Unknown said...

strange

Anonymous said...

very very strange

Anonymous said...

God forgive me.... many moslems brothers, sisters, mamas, papas etc must have been buried while still unconscious and termed dead by the doctors. Meanwhile, its only God Almighty that can pronounced anyone 'dead' and not doctors. Am saying this bcos moslem buried their loved ones same day and if the unfortunate occurs at past 4pm, they bury the next day.

Anonymous said...

U believe in God he believes in sometin else....leave a man t his beliefs so far as it hurts no body

Anonymous said...

MICKY: thank God

Mickycoal said...

kpako hospital

Anonymous said...

Praise the lord

Anonymous said...

And wats ur beef with the woman?*y so bitter*

Unknown said...

Irma Dulce is like a saint in Brazil. So thanking her is like thanking the creator.

kisha said...

Ur faith will make u whole. Wateva u serve,serve wholeheartedly.

Anonymous said...

It could only be God who has done dis great work. Doris

APPLE said...

Nah wao!!! But muslims must be burying a lot of their own alive because they bury their dead sharp sharp.

Unknown said...

incredible







BORN TO SHINE!!!!

Anonymous said...

Na so them for take bury person papa alive o.

Anonymous said...

He's soooooooooo lucky just for one particular reason...that he's not a Muslim...them for don bury am immediately them notice his ceased breath!!!!

LoGic

Brown suga said...

If only u guys could admit it was a miracle from God.

Anonymous said...

Who's Report will you believe?
For all those who think medical reports, expert opinions are the final word, here's something to think about isn't it. The fact that medical science cannot do it doesn't mean it cannot be done.
Believe the Authority of the Word. THAT is the Final Authority.
Glory to God.
-AE

Anonymous said...

Thank God bro, not the woman.

PRETTY GIRL said...

Oh dear! Some good news can be so refreshing. ..Soooo happy for him#A chance to live again. I can imagine how happy his family would be#God still lives and he still performs miracles

Unknown said...

@ Ifeoma,the man saw what he believed made him whole again. Where you there? Google who the woman was and what she did and u might understand only if u believe,and if not, try asking yourself if you could try to be that "ONE WOMAN".

yawanow said...

This has nothing to do with Muslim burials (every religion with their own belief, Catholics bury theirs after two weeks, others 2months, a year,etc). The doctors didn't do a proper check before pronouncing him dead.

Thank God for his life.

Anonymous said...

This can only b God's hand wrk...veno.brightheart@ymail.com

Unknown said...

Thank God

Anonymous said...

Thank God oo, ha!!! na so dem for bury this man ooo. by dobis112@gmail.com

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