BUTTERWORTH: The 65-year-old man who came back to life after being dead for two-and-a-half hours on Thursday, in what is believed to be the first of its kind in the country, is in stable condition.
Ng Swee Hock, however, is still unconscious at the critical care unit (CCU) of the Seberang Jaya Hospital here.
“According to the state Health Department, the patient is still on a ventilator machine at the CCU,” Penang executive councillor Phee Boon Poh, who heads the state Health, Welfare, Caring Society and Environment committee, said yesterday.
Ng had stopped breathing at his home in Jalan Tok Elong, Tanah Liat in Bukit Mertajam, and was pronounced dead by doctors at the Seberang Jaya Hospital after he was admitted there at about 11am.
It was reported that although doctors did a CPR on him for 45 minutes, he did not respond.
However, Ng started to breathe again two-and-a-half hours after being pronounced dead.
Hospital director Dr Sukumar Mahesan said an independent board of inquiry into the case found it to be consistent with the Lazarus phenomenon (a spontaneous return of circulation after failed attempts at resuscitation).
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