‘It is a miracle’: Man declared dead in Patiala hospital comes alive after ambulance hits pothole in Haryana's Karnal

Chandigarh, January 13

The body of Haryana resident Darshan Singh Brar was being taken from Patiala to his home near Karnal, after he was declared dead by doctors.

Back home, the mourning relatives had gathered for the 80-year-old’s funeral, when the ambulance hit a pothole and Brar’s grandson Balwan Singh–who was with him in the ambulance–noticed his grandfather moving his hand.

As the grandson sensed a heartbeat, he asked the ambulance driver to head to the nearest hospital quickly.

The doctors there declared him alive.

“It is a miracle. We are hoping that my grandfather gets well soon. It is God’s grace that he is now breathing and we are hoping that he will get better,” said the grandson.

Brar was unwell for a few days and his brother had taken him to a hospital near his house in Patiala.

Balwan said his grandfather was on a ventilator for four days and, on Thursday morning, doctors said that his heartbeat had stopped.

He was taken off the ventilator and declared dead. When the ambulance was near Dhand village in Haryana’s Karnal, it hit a pothole and it was noticed that Brar had moved his hand.

The family said doctors at the hospital confirmed that Brar was alive and breathing and then referred him to a hospital in Nising, from where he was taken to another hospital in Karnal.