By Isabelle Wilson-
The Mexican Attorney General has a tough investigation on its hand, after a Mexican child was allegedly misdiagnosed by doctors at the hospital and woke up 12 hours after having been pronounced dead on Wednesday.
Camila Roxana Martinez Mendoza was misdiagnosed by doctors who believed she was dead, only to end up red faced when she emerged alive during her funeral before stunned mourners who couldn’t believe their eyes. Suggestion she was alive began after condensation was noticed on the coffin. Friends and family standing over her casket observed the coffin’s glass window fogging , and Martinez’s maternal grandmother saw that her eyes were moving.
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After a pulse showed that she was indeed alive, she as again rushed back to the Salinas de Hidalgo Community Hospital in the state of San Luis Potosi, in central Mexico- the same hospital where the original misdiagnosis had taken place. This time she was eventually pronounced dead, as she died by the time she got there.
The incredible story is making waves online , and calls for answers as to how this could have happened.
Camila’s mother, Mary Jane Mendoza, explained that her daughter was suffering with a sore stomach, vomiting, and a fever, so was taken along to see the local paediatrician in their hometown of Villa de Ramos. Medics recommended Camila was taken over to the local hospital, where – upon arrival – she was treated for dehydration and given some basic painkillers.
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Her condition worsened and she was brought back into the hospital later .
Mendoza said: “Now they wanted to connect her to an IV drip, they took a long time connect her to oxygen, they couldn’t do it because they couldn’t find her veins, finally a nurse managed it.”
After she was pronounced dead between 9.00pm and 10.00pm that night, she was then locked in a room at the hospital, separated from her daughter’s body, before she managed to get out through another door.
It was then that condensation was noticed on a glass panel in her coffin the following day, suggesting that the supposedly dead child was breathing.
The experience has shocked the young girl’s family, but also their neighbourhood and the country.
Rare stories like this call for a thorough investigation with answers and accountability ensured at the end. How doctors be mistaken in thinking the young child was dead is damaging to their credibility, but the fact she eventually died either suggests she was on her way to death’s door when doctor’s got it wrong, or the entire process of tying to bury her actually killed her.
Errors of this magnitude ought never to occur in any country.
The outcome of the investigation should be interesting , and this publication will keep a keen eye on its conclusions.
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