(ORDO NEWS) — A 76-year-old woman, who was declared dead in one of Ecuador’s hospitals, quite frightened her relatives when she suddenly knocked on the lid of the coffin during the funeral.
A government investigation has been launched into the medical facility. This is reported by The Guardian.
Retired nurse Bella Montoya has been hospitalized after suffering a possible stroke and cardiac arrest, it has been revealed. The Ministry of Health of Ecuador reported that when the patient did not respond to resuscitation, the doctor on duty declared her dead.
The son of the “deceased” said that his mother was unconscious when she was taken to the emergency room. A few hours later, the doctor informed him that she was dead and handed over her identification and death certificate.
Then the family took the relative to the funeral home , and later arranged a wake when strange sounds were heard from the coffin.
“There were about 20 of us there. About five hours after the wake, the coffin began to make sounds. My mother was wrapped in sheets and hit her head on the coffin, and when we came, we saw that she was breathing hard,” said the son.
The woman was taken back to hospital in the central city of Babahoyo, where the health minister said she was in intensive care.
The ministry said it was investigating the doctors involved in the case, and a technical committee had been formed to review how the hospital issues death certificates.
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