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Elderly man ‘comes back to life’ after ambulance hits pothole in crazy ‘miracle’
An 80-year-old man in India has ‘come back to life’ this month after a pothole in the road resuscitated him.
Darshan Singh Brar, from Haryana, was in an ambulance after being declared dead by doctors when the miracle happened.
Elderly man declared dead at hospital
Brar had been on a ventilator for four days in the hospital after being taken unwell, his grandson Balwan Singh told NDTV.
Doctors sadly revealed that his heartbeat had stopped and he was taken off the ventilator and declared dead.
The family informed their relatives and friends of his death and many had already already gathered to mourn him.
Wood had been collected for the cremation, a tent had been set up for the funeral and food had been arranged for the attendees.
The 80-year-old’s body was being transported back to the village in an ambulance when something incredible happened.
Man ‘comes back to life’ after hitting pothole
The ambulance hit a pothole in the road’s surface and another one of Brar’s grandsons then noticed his hand moving.
He checked for a heartbeat and was amazed to find his grandfather alive, so they rushed to the nearest hospital.
Doctors confirmed he was breathing and referred him to another hospital, where he is being treated for an infection in his chest.
“It is a miracle. Now we are hoping that my grandfather recovers soon,” Balwan said. “It is God’s grace that he is now breathing and we are hoping he will get better.”
Dr Netrapal from Rawal Hospital told NDTV they cannot say the patient died, as he was breathing and had a pulse when he was brought to them.
“We don’t know what happened at the other hospital, whether it was a technical error or something else,” he said.
The same thing happened in Nebraska
The same thing happened in 2019, when a man from Gretna, Nebraska, was rushed to hospital for a dangerously high heart rate.
He was picked up by an ambulance as his heart was at 200 beats per minute and the vehicle hit a pothole on the 20-minute journey to the hospital.
The jolt shocked his heart back to normal, mimicking the electric shock that’s usually used to regulate people’s heart rate.
It’s rare, but it’s a well-described phenomenon, Dr. Andrew Goldsweig, of Nebraska Medicine, told WCVB.
