{"id":467251,"date":"2011-07-25T04:03:10","date_gmt":"2011-07-25T04:03:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/07\/25\/dead-man-wakes-up-in-mortuary\/"},"modified":"2011-07-25T04:03:10","modified_gmt":"2011-07-25T04:03:10","slug":"dead-man-wakes-up-in-mortuary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/07\/25\/dead-man-wakes-up-in-mortuary\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Dead&#8217; Man Wakes Up in Mortuary"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"31.3814299579\">\n<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/>\n<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sapa.co.za\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/allafrica.com\/img\/static\/publishers\/minibanners\/sapa180.gif\" alt=\"South African Press Association (Johannesburg)\" title=\"Visit South African Press Association (Johannesburg)\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>24 July 2011<\/p>\n<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/>\n<p>Johannesburg \u2014 A 50-year-old asthmatic man presumed dead by his family woke up inside the morgue of a private undertaker at Libode in the Transkei region on Sunday afternoon<\/p>\n<p>The man, whose name has been withheld, lost consciousness while asleep at his home in a nearby village on Saturday evening, said Eastern Cape health department spokesman Sizwe Kupelo.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;His family thought he had died,&#8221; Kupelo told Sapa.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The family called a private undertaker who took what they thought was a dead body to the morgue, but the man woke up inside the morgue on Sunday at 5pm and screamed, demanding to be taken out of the cold place.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He had been there for nearly 24 hours.<\/p>\n<p>Kupelo said the two mortuary attendants who were on duty at the time ran out of the building thinking the screaming man was a ghost.<\/p>\n<p>They called for help, put on brave faces and went back to find that the man was indeed alive.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We sent an ambulance to the funeral parlour to take the man to Saint Barnabas Hospital because he had been exposed to extreme cold for nearly 24 hours,&#8221; Kupelo said.<\/p>\n<p>He warned the public not to assume that a sick person had died and call a mortuary.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Doctors, emergency workers and the police are the only people who have a right to examine the patients and determine if they are dead or not,&#8221; said Kupelo.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<fieldset>\n<legend align=\"center\"><strong>More News on allAfrica.com<\/strong><\/legend>\n<\/fieldset>\n<p>AllAfrica &#8211; 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