A man in India who was mistakenly declared dead and woke up in a morgue freezer after a motorcycle accident has died five days later, Daily Mail reports.
Srikesh Kumar, 45, was thought to have passed away when he was left in a morgue freezer overnight. The following day, however, he was miraculously found alive by his family.
Following the remarkable discovery, Kumar suddenly fell into a coma due to an internal head bleeding disorder. His family has now confirmed that Kumar died, this time for certain, during treatment at the Lala Lajpat Rai Memorial medical college in Meerut on Tuesday, November 23.
Kumar, who was an electrician by profession, was originally declared dead on November 19 after he arrived at a private medical facility in Moradabad, Uttar Pradesh, according to an AFP report published via Today Online.
The man was then placed in a freezer at the morgue, ready for his family to collect him the next morning.
"The emergency medical officer examined him. He did not find any signs of life and hence declared him dead," the hospital's medical superintendent Rajendra Kumar told the AFP.
Indian outlet The Tribune reports that Kumar's family had arrived at the morgue to identify him but were startled to see that he was breathing and moving.
One member of his family shared a video of him moving slightly and breathing as he lay on a hospital gurney. And although his eyes are closed in the footage, he appears to be very much alive.
The superintendent hailed Kumar's survival after being placed in the morgue freezer following supposedly fatal injuries as "nothing short of a miracle."
Moradabad's chief medical superintendent Shiv Singh said in an interview with The Tribune that the emergency medical officer who examined Kumar when he was rushed to the facility was not able to detect a heartbeat.
"He had examined the man multiple times," Singh said.
Singh told the publication that an investigation into the man's declaration of death is set to be launched. He added, though, that this was the "rarest of rare cases," and insisted the incident was not due to "negligence."
Per The Times of India, Kumar is believed to have been kept in the morgue freezer for approximately seven hours.
In an interview with the above outlet, a doctor at the hospital speculated that Kumar was able to survive the event as power outages at the hospital kept turning the freezer on and off.
