A PATIENT was taken to a hospital ward to morgue when he was nonetheless alive and will have tried to get out of his physique bag, a health care provider has stated.

When the medic examined Kevin Reid, 55, the subsequent day he was useless however his eyes had been open, there was blood on his robe and his physique place had moved, suggesting he died within the morgue.

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He has now alleged to a coroner that hospital workers tried to get him to cowl up the macabre mistake by backdating the dying certificates however he refused, Enterprise Information Reviews.

In his grievance, he alleges the Reid, a palliative care affected person at Rockingham Normal Hospital in Western Australia was pronounced useless by nurses on the ward on September 5.

Final rites got and his physique was ready earlier than it was transferred to the morgue just a few hours later.

No physician was referred to as to certify the dying, which is customary process, so the medic was requested to challenge one and went to see the physique.

However he was surprised by what he noticed when he got here throughout Mr Reid, whose eyes had been open and with recent blood from a minimize to an arm and the opposite arm was over his proper shoulder.

“I consider the frank blood from a brand new pores and skin tear, arm place and eye indicators had been inconsistent with an individual who was autopsy on arrival on the morgue,” the physician instructed the coroner final week.

The difficulty got here to mild when a funeral director questioned the date of September 6 on the dying certificates however man’s household was current with him after they had been instructed he died on September 5.

The physician who made the allegation has now give up the hospital.

A state coroner’s workplace spokeswoman confirmed an investigation was below approach.

“After receiving notification from a health care provider on the Rockingham Hospital of the dying of a 55-year-old man, the coroner’s court docket on Monday, October 3, commenced to research whether or not the dying is a reportable dying,” she stated.

“The court docket doesn’t make public any of these investigations.”

South Metropolitan Well being Service Paul Forden stated that an skilled nurse had assessed Mr Reid on September 5 and located no indicators of life.

However there have been no treating medical doctors out there to certify the dying as required.

Forden clinicians he spoke to instructed him indicators recognized by the physician on the morgue had been “commonplace”.

“The physician was requested to think about whether or not they’d be ready to place the time of dying as the day past when the nurse had assessed the dying. The physician declined to try this.

“The physician raised some issues appropriately with the coroner’s workplace. I’d not attempt to suppress anyone within the medical occupation elevating issues.

“The investigation is into the protocols following the dying of the affected person, not into whether or not that affected person was deceased.”

Earlier this yr a person who nursing dwelling workers thought had died turned out to be alive simply as his physique was about to be taken to a crematorium.

Weird footage has emerged on Chinese language social media displaying the second baffled staff unzipped a physique bag after workers observed motion because it was put in a hearse.