Rotting Eye
05-11-2004, 11:09 PM
An elderly Vietnamese man thought to have died in a hospital revived after spending the night in the morgue.
State media and a doctor say Nguyen Van Quan, 73, was declared dead and taken to a Ho Chi Minh City hospital morgue on the night of August 15.
He was found alive by his daughter the next morning as she was retrieving the body for the funeral.
The Vietnam News daily quotes her as saying she was shocked and frightened when she saw the blanket that covered her father moving.
A doctor at the Nguyen Tri Phuong hospital, where Quan had been admitted after complaining of chest pain says he is still in the emergency section.
The doctor declined to elaborate on the case but says investigations into the incident are under way.
23/08/2003 13:47:44 | ABC Radio
State media and a doctor say Nguyen Van Quan, 73, was declared dead and taken to a Ho Chi Minh City hospital morgue on the night of August 15.
He was found alive by his daughter the next morning as she was retrieving the body for the funeral.
The Vietnam News daily quotes her as saying she was shocked and frightened when she saw the blanket that covered her father moving.
A doctor at the Nguyen Tri Phuong hospital, where Quan had been admitted after complaining of chest pain says he is still in the emergency section.
The doctor declined to elaborate on the case but says investigations into the incident are under way.
23/08/2003 13:47:44 | ABC Radio