Posted on 08/09/2009 7:11:02 PM PDT by My Favorite Headache
Grieving father finds 'dead' baby son ALIVE in coffin
Premature: Doctors said the baby boy's heartbeat was undetectable A premature baby declared dead by doctors was found to be alive hours later when he was taken home for a funeral wake.
The baby's father, Jose Alvarenga, was told by doctors that his son had died shortly after birth. Staff from the state-run hospital in Asuncion, the Paraguayan capital, delivered the infant's body to Mr Alvarenga's home fours hours later.
Shortly afterwards, the grieving father opened the baby's coffin to bid an emotional farewell to his son. "I opened it to look at his remains and found that the baby was breathing," Mr Alvarenga said. "I began to cry." He rushed back to the hospital with his unnamed baby in his arms and nurses placed the infant in an oxygen chamber.
He is now reported to be in a stable condition. "This is a very unusual case," said Ernesto Weber, head of paediatric intensive care at the hospital. He acknowledged that the doctor handling the case did not properly check the infant's vital signs, and said an investigation would be carried out.
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Ah, a preview of the "level of care" we can expect should obamacare pass...
I think this says a good deal more about the state of stat-run medicine in Paraguay than anything else.
I think this says a good deal more about the state of state-run medicine in Paraguay than anything else.
Welcome to the future of “healthcare” in your town.
I’ve heard of rushed medicos but this takes the cake.
I hate when that happens.
Well stop opening that thing. What are you, some kind of nut?
ping
Me coming off the chain would be the least of their worries.
i have a feeling that’s what bammycare doctors would say! HAHAHA.
He’s lucky they had not embalmed him.
Or.. be sure not to get embalmed
that might be deadly for sure..
George Tiller would be deeply saddened.
“He acknowledged that the doctor handling the case did not properly check the infant’s vital signs”
Ya THINK?
“I would absolutely lose it...absolutely freaking lose it. “
But with Obamacare, you would have absolutely no right to sue.
Horrible! That baby could have been buried alive! Thank God the father found the little boy alive. I hope he makes it.
This is an example of Soylent Green health care. Obama’s vision for America.
Me to.
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