NEW YORK (WABC) — A Long Island man is suing New York City Health and Hospitals for authorizing his deceased mother’s organs to be donated to LiveOnNY without her or his consent.
When Myriam Hoyos de Baldrich, 69, arrived at Bellevue Hospital on May 7, 2022, she was an unidentified patient. She had been hit by an L Train around 14th Street in Flatiron and was declared brain dead.
“She didn’t have an ID on her, she didn’t have any belongings, she was a Jane Doe,” Stephanie Echeverria, Hoyos de Baldrich’s niece, said in an exclusive interview with Eyewitness News investigative reporter Kristin Thorne.
Hoyos de Baldrich, who had dementia, disappeared from her son’s home in Seaford the day prior.
The family filed a missing persons report with the Nassau County Police Department on May 8 – not knowing that Hoyos de Baldrich had already been hit by the subway train and was at Bellevue Hospital.
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