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But the terrifying fear came true for one South African man, who woke up inside a morgue after his family wrongly thought he had died, the Sapa news agency reports.<\/p>\n
The 50-year-old male from Libode was actually alive and kicking, but his relatives had called an undertaker when they were unable to rouse him from his sleep.<\/p>\n
He was taken to a mortuary and placed inside the cold morgue for almost 24 hours before he woke up and started screaming for help.<\/p>\n
Unfortunately, the staff initially ran away in fear that a ghost was present, but when they realised what had happened the man was rescued and taken to a nearby hospital.<\/p>\n
A spokesperson from the Eastern Cape Department of Health – set up in 1994 – commented: "You begin to ask yourself how many other people have died like that in a morgue."<\/p>\n
It should serve as a message to reform the current system in South Africa, whereby some people simply conclude a person is dead without medical confirmation, the representative added.<\/p>\n
Posted by Simon Williams
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