Cagliari, shock to Brotzu: "Your husband is dead", but it wasn't true
After calling the funeral home and relatives, the woman discovered that her spouse was still alive. Death a few hours later: "No explanation from the doctors, I'm heartbroken"
" Your husband is dead, he'll be in the mortuary within the hour ."
Thus began the morning of Paola Trogu , who yesterday - around 11.30 - received the call from Brotzu, where her spouse had been hospitalized for a serious respiratory crisis, following a rare tumour. But shortly after arriving at the hospital, the discovery: the man was still alive . To tell the story herself who, with her children, still can't realize what happened. “My husband was 70 years old. After the news from the medical staff, I immediately called the funeral home, friends and relatives to communicate the fact. Arrived at the scene, after an hour and a half the body had not yet arrived. On the other hand, however , I received another call where they told me that my husband was not dead and that he had started breathing again », explains the woman.
"An incredible scene , in many years of work we had never seen anything like it," they say from the agency, confirming what was reconstructed by Mrs. Trogu. «We arrived at the scene around 12.30 but nobody knew anything: we asked a nurse, but in vain. Then came the phone call." To follow - for those present - moments of amazement, fear, disorientation «and the race towards the ward where we found that my husband Oliviero, even if with difficulty and with the aid of oxygen, was still breathing. He was totally unconscious, but he was still among us», continues the woman who, in desperation, asked the doctor for an explanation. “How is it possible to announce a death, alert a family, and then find out it wasn't true? How could they fail to ascertain death? Did they just watch it? Or did they do an electrocardiogram?” continues the widow.
From the medical staff “ we only received apologies . They said that never happened . That controls are sometimes “not necessary”. And I wonder if all of this is right. Because what we have experienced I do not wish on anyone ». Then, around 19, the death. “Tomorrow there will be the funeral. I am heartbroken at the loss and how the situation was handled. I don't want to point the finger at anyone, just that others know this story», concludes Trogu.
