Groom refuses to cancel wedding ceremony after his bride died on wedding day

43 year-old Fana Maphumulo, from South Africa refused to cancel his wedding ceremony with his wife to be, Nana Mkhize died an hour before tying the knot on their wedding day last Saturday.

According to reports, sometime in October this year, 42 year-old Nana had told Fana that she had dreamt she would die on her wedding day, but the couple didn’t take much notice of the dream and moved on with their wedding plans.

On the wedding day, hundreds of guests had arrived at the beautifully decorated wedding venue at Kloof Civic Centre, Durban, South Africa, to witness the couple’s big day only for Nana’s dream to become a reality.

The deceased, who is from G section in Umlazi, south Durban, South Africa, was reportedly admitted to the hospital the day before her wedding,complaining of feeling weak. She died an hour before it was time for her to tie the knot, reports say.

 But amazingly, Fana from Hammersdale, west of Durban, South Africa, stood strong, continued with the wedding ceremony and asked the pastor to pray as he placed both rings on his finger.

The couple had reportedly been in a relationship for more than 20 years. They both have four kids and had been planning the wedding for many years before the tragic incident on their wedding day.

City boss died after key equipment was turned off at top private hospital

A banker who underwent heart surgery at one of London’s top private hospitals died after a key piece of machinery was apparently turned off, an inquest heard

   Robert Entenman, a 57-year-old American with children aged eight and 10, went into cardiac arrest at London Bridge hospital a week after a “99 per cent safe” operation to repair a heart valve.
His life support machine was turned off on May 30 last year after tests showed that oxygen starvation during the 15-minute arrest had left him with a “very significant brain injury”.
   Southwark coroner’s court was told yesterday that Mr Entenman, a New York-born department head at UniCredit bank in London, had been placed on a ventilator in intensive care following the heart operation on May 15.
   The operation had lasted 10 hours after surgeon Interpaul Birdi was forced to abandon plans to carry out the procedure by keyhole surgery and moved to “plan B” - opening the chest in the “traditional way” - after encountering a series of “hurdles”.
   An intensive care doctor looking after Mr Entenman said he believed the pipe to his airway became blocked with “sticky” mucus because a humidifier designed to prevent secretions building up had been switched off.
   Dr Duncan Wyncoll, a consultant intensivist, told the court that he saw a 5cm blockage in the endotracheal (ET) airway tube when it was replaced during the bid to save his life.
“There was a thick mucus plug at the tip of the ET tube,” he said. “I think it was most likely that that, in retrospect, was the cause of the arrest.”
   He added: “I feel the absence of the humidifier for a prolonged period of time had made them (secretions) sticky leading to the tube blocking.”
   Pathologist Dr Simi George gave the primary cause of death as “hypoxic ischaemic brain injury”.
Mr Entenman, who lived near Chislehurst, had type-2 diabetes and weighed 22st with a BMI above 40, making him technically obese.
   Medical records read in court suggested he drank 18 pints a week, though higher and lower figures were also mentioned. He wanted the heart repair to enable him to go on to have a hip replacement operation.
Coroner Henrietta Hill QC said letters his wife Athina sent after his death to Mr Birdi and the hospital, run by private healthcare firm HCA, raised a “range of concerns” about her husband’s treatment.
Mr Birdi told the court that the probability of repairing the heart valve was “in excess of 95 per cent”.
He added: “I quoted it as 98 per cent, though I updated it as 99 per cent. There was a very high likelihood we would be able to repair his valve.”
   After the operation, Mr Entenman was placed on a heart and lung ventilator. Recalling a visit to his patient on May 22, Mr Birdi said he had been well enough to shake his hand.
    “I was so pleased to see Mr Entenman,” Mr Birdi said. “His eyes were open. He was attempting to speak to me round the tube in his windpipe.
   "I thought it was only a matter of time before Mr Entenman would be off the ventilator. I reassured him that all was going to be fine.
   “Mrs Entenman had some concerns about the room. The temperature in the room was very high.”
The court heard that a humidifier was being used to moisten the gases supplied via the ventilator. If the air is too dry, this can cause secretions to block the tube.
   The coroner said: “We may hear evidence to suggest there was a 19-hour period of time when the humidifier was offline.”
   Around 6am on May 23, Mr Entenman went into cardiac arrest.
Dr Andreas Marnerides, who presented the report, said Mr Entenman died “because there was not enough oxygen to the brain.
   “The reason for that was the blockage of the ET tube.”
Dr Wyncoll said Mr Entenman had suffered “complications” after the heart surgery. He was agitated, suffering a “significant inflammatory response” and his kidneys were failing.
   Dr Wyncoll said: “Six to seven days after his operation, he still needed intensive care. Though I would hope we would be able to get him through, he was by no means out of the woods.”
   Mrs entenman’s lawyer, Paul McNeil, of Fieldfisher, is investigating whether to bring a High Court negligence claim at the conclusion of the hearing.
   The inquest resumes today and is expected to last until the end of the week.