Patient identified, reunited with family

Mary Immaculate Hospital’s unknown patient who responded to the name ‘Rodrigo’ has been reunited with his family.
Rodrigo Martinez spent two months in the hospital as a result of being disoriented when found sleeping on the stoop on a homeowner on 182nd Street in Jamaica. Unable to express himself verbally or through writing due to the evidence of a stroke, officals’ attempts to identify him and where he came from were unsuccessful.
Little did anyone know, but when his family learned that he was missing, they too searched for him, to no avail.
It was later learned that Martinez was on vacation from El Salvador, and was visiting his son who lived in Hempstead, Long Island, when he had a stroke and was admitted to a Long Island hospital. After his recovery, he was discharged to his family in Hempstead.
It was some time during the night of February 1 that he wandered from the house and ended up in Jamaica. The family sought help from the local authorities and distributed flyers throughout Long Island, but was not able to find him.
In the meantime, police and hospital staff were searching for Martinez’s family in Queens, around the area where he was found, by distributing flyers and then going to the media.
When the family saw the story on television, they immediately traveled to Mary Immaculate Hospital, where they were reunited and Martinez was discharged.