Kenyan authorities have launched an
investigation into how a man declared dead in a hospital woke up alive in its
mortuary the next day.
Shocked mortuary workers at Naivasha
hospital ran away when the body stirred and was seen to be breathing.
Paul Mutora, who had tried to kill
himself by swallowing insecticide, was pronounced dead on Wednesday night.
The chief medic said the drug used to
treat him slowed the heart beat, which may have led to the mistake.
The mortuary attendant and a worker
took to their heels screaming”
"This might have confused
medical personnel, but the victim was saved before he could be embalmed,"
Dr Joseph Mburu, the superintendent in charge of Naivasha District Hospital,
was quoted by Kenya's Standard newspaper as saying.
According to the paper, Mr Mutora's
father and other relatives visited the morgue on Thursday morning to view the
body and then returned home to start funeral arrangements.
"But in the afternoon we were
informed, he was alive and were left in shock," the father said.
A witness told the Star newspaper
that when noises were heard inside the cold room: "The mortuary attendant
and a worker took to their heels screaming."
Journalists photographed Mr Mutora
later recovering on a male ward in the hospital in the lakeside town, 90km (55
miles) north-west of the capital, Nairobi,.."This was a mistake from the start and I
apologise to my father," the patient said
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