A teenage girl in a coma after a
catastrophic car crash came round just as doctors were about to declare her
brain dead. Carina Melchior had had life support withdrawn on the advice of
medics and was being prepared for organ donation.
But to the astonishment of
staff at the Aarhus Hospital, in Denmark, the 19-year-old suddenly opened her
eyes and started moving her legs.
She is now making a good recovery at a
rehabilitation centre and is able to walk, talk and even ride her horse
Mathilde. Her family is now suing the hospital for damages, claiming that
doctors had been desperate to harvest her body parts.
'Those bandits in white coats
gave up too quickly because they wanted an organ donor,' her father Kim told
the Danish newspaper Ekstra Bladet. The family’s lawyer Nils Fjeldberg said
that Ms Melchior keeps asking if doctors were trying to k**ll her.
'Of course this is a great trauma,
both for her and her parents who were convinced that there was nothing else
that could be done and agreed to donate her organs,' he told the newspaper.
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