NYC docs stole ‘missing’ brain dead woman Myriam Hoyos de Baldrich’s organs: suit
By Kathianne BonielloMay 13, 2023 11:42am
Updated
A mentally-impaired Long Island woman who went missing from her home and was then killed by a subway train had her organs “harvested” by doctors before authorities even told her family she was dead, according to a lawsuit.
Myriam Hoyos de Baldrich, 69, went missing on May 6, 2022, from her son Alberto Anaya’s Seaford, LI home, her family said.
The next day the mother of two was hit by a Brooklyn-bound L train near 6th Avenue and West 14th Street in Manhattan, her family claimed in court papers.
But even though Baldrich had “written proof of her identity” with her, no one reached out to the family, who were calling hospitals and police precincts looking for her, Anaya claimed in court papers.
Anaya reported his mom missing to Nassau County police on May 8, and cops issued a “Missing Vulnerable Adult” report.
Baldrich was declared brain dead at Bellevue Hospital the following day.
A week later, Baldrich was taken to NYU Langone, where her “body was dissected and her organs harvested for donation including her thoracic and abdominal aorta, kidneys, adrenal glands, liver and gallbladder,” her family said in a Manhattan Supreme Court lawsuit against the city and the Health and Hospitals Corp., which runs Bellevue.
Baldrich’s family was finally notified on May 18 that she’d been found, after the city Medical Examiner’s office took her fingerprints.
Anaya, who is seeking unspecified damages, slammed the organ retrieval as “a violation of the decedent’s personal and cultural wishes to have a dissection conducted upon her body” and accused the city and HHC of negligence.
Source:https://nypost.com/2023/05/13/nyc-docs-stole-myriam-hoyos-de-baldrichs-organs-lawsuit/
