I know what you’re thinking, and the answer is no: I did not learn about
this story from The National Enquirer.
Sensational though this headline sounds, it is factually accurate, according to numerous
Israeli news sources.
In Israel,
a 26-year-old pregnant woman began hemorrhaging and
experiencing intense pain. Tests showed that her fetus, in its 23rd week
of gestation, was already dead. After an emergency operation to remove the
fetus, doctors pronounced the 610-gram baby girl dead. She was sent to
the morgue to be prepared for burial.
Five hours later, the baby’s mother asked to see her
daughter’s body one last time. Picking up the tiny bundle, she immediately started screaming. Her baby was moving. The child was rushed to the intensive care unit,
where she is still struggling to survive.
The baby’s father has criticized the Western Galilee
Hospital for negligence,
accusing them of too quickly pronouncing his premature daughter dead. But the
hospital director maintains that senior doctors made no mistakes; the only way to
explain how the baby spontaneously started breathing again is that it was a “medical
miracle.”
He noted that this miracle may have been related to the cool temperature
of the morgue, which vastly lowered the baby's oxygen consumption. There have been extremely rare cases of people who "came back to life" after it appeared that they had frozen to death. The Health Ministry will likely set up an investigating
committee to look into the matter.
Photo: Channel 2
UPDATE:
Baby Never Really "Came Back to Life"
