Hospital probe after mortuary is scene of Lazarus-style resurrection at Easter

AN investigation is taking place into how a man was pronounced dead at the Mater Hospital but was subsequently found to be alive.

The hospital yesterday refused to provide details about the bizarre “Lazarus-style” incident in which mortuary workers, who came to collect a body, discovered that the patient was still alive.

Red-faced hospital staff have issued an apology to the man’s family for having wrongly informed them that their relative was dead.