For 10 days, the family of Rogelia White, 85, mourned his death. The woman fell ill with coronavirus in a nursing home in Xove, in the Spanish city of Lugo, and on January 13, 2021, they informed his family that he had died.
White was buried in the cemetery of San Pedro de Xuances in a closed casket as it is a victim of covid-19, according to the Spanish media The country January 25.
Still invaded with sadness over the woman’s departure, Julio, one of his nephews, received a call last Saturday, January 23, from the residence: “Your aunt Rogelia is here.”
Indeed Rogelia is alive and had defeated the virus And this whole unusual case was about a confusion. Conchita, her roommate during the illness, did die of covid-19 and it was her that Blanco’s loved ones buried on January 14.
The information from El País mentions that the San Rosendo Foundation, who runs the San Bartolomeu de Xove residence, where the two older adults were, lamented the “unfortunate incident.”
In some way that is unknown so far, the identities of the two women are they exchanged when on December 29, after testing positive for the new coronavirus, they were transferred from the nursing home in Xove to another in Pereiro de Aguiar (Ourense) where the entity concentrates its infected residents.
According to the media, Rogelia and Conchita shared the ambulance during the 220-kilometer journey in which they had to change vehicles due to a breakdown. Upon arrival, they were installed in the same room.
The confusion of identities led to the doctors de Pereiro de Aguiar will inform Rogelia’s relatives of the bad evolution of Conchita, and vice versa. Julio, Blanco’s nephew, mentioned that he believes that they confused after a few days because, “at first, I’m sure they told me about my aunt: they told me she sang when she was happy and Rogelia is like that!”
After 10 days of her apparent death, Rogelia was transferred in an ambulance and thus arrived at the door of the Xove residence, taking the workers by surprise, who were waiting to receive Conchita. Once the error was verified, the families affected.
Rogelia’s family criticized the “lack of professionalism” of the San Rosendo Foundation, which has announced that its juridical services they will take care of the complex paperwork for Julio’s aunt to be recorded as alive again in the official archives and Conchita’s body to be transferred to the niche of her real family, the media said.
After the unfortunate confusion, sources from the foundation said that from now on the residents who are referred to the center of Pereiro de Aguiar will be identified with a bracelet similar to that of hospitals.
In addition, the organization defends in a release that what happened “is a specific event among the more than 100 transfers that have been made since last December.”
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