Family Traumatised after patient wrongly declared dead
28 September 2016
A Meyerton family is angry and upset after being told that their daughter and sister was declared dead at the Kopanong Hospital in Vereeniging, but when they arrived to fetch the body they found that she was still alive.
Last week on Wednesday a policeman came to inform them that 26-year-old Tracy Palesa Hugo had died. She had been taken earlier in the week to the hospital after suffering a stroke.
They told family members across the country about her death, and posted it on Facebook.
On Monday this week, they came with an undertaker to remove the body, and then discovered that she was alive and being treated in a ward.