A 76-year-old woman from Ecuador who was declared dead by doctors was placed in a coffin.
After several hours of observation, her relatives finally discovered that the 70-year-old was still breathing.
A «medical audit» has been launched to clarify the circumstances of this mistaken death certificate.
Local media are already referring to her as «resurrected» . In the middle of the burial chamber, lying in her coffin, the elderly woman declared dead цвітіння began breathing again, causing astonishment among her relatives, who had been watching her for nearly five hours. In a video that has gone viral on Twitter, Bella Montoya, 76, is seen lying in an open coffin, breathing heavily and moving her jaw, surrounded by two men who embrace her.
Declared dead by doctors, the 76-year-old woman from Ecuador was placed in the coffin.
After several hours of observation, her relatives finally discovered that the 70-year-old was still breathing.
A «medical audit» has been launched to clarify the circumstances of this mistaken death certificate.
Local media are already referring to her as «resurrected» . In the middle of the burial chamber, lying in her coffin, the elderly woman declared dead цвітіння began breathing again, causing astonishment among her relatives, who had been watching her for nearly five hours. In a video that has gone viral on Twitter, Bella Montoya, 76, is seen lying in an open coffin, breathing heavily and moving her jaw, surrounded by two men who embrace her.
After several hours of vigil, when her relatives opened the coffin to change for the funeral, the 70-year-old was found to be still alive , according to local press reports. «Her left hand was hitting the walls, and her arm was shaking, » said her son, Gilbert Balberan, in another video broadcast by local media.
The elderly woman had already been taken care of by firefighters and was taken to the hospital’s intensive care unit. «My mother is hooked up to oxygen. His heart is stable,» she said. The doctor pinched her hand , and she reacted,» the son enthused in an interview with El Universo newspaper.
«Heart failure»
The death was announced Friday at a public hospital in the coastal city of Babahoyo, in the southwest of the country. According to Ecuadorian media, Bella Montoya suffered from hypertension and heart problems. According to the Ministry of Health, el was hospitalized for a suspected stroke and «suffered cardiac and respiratory arrest without responding to resuscitation maneuvers, after which a doctor from .
According to the local press, the 70-year-old may have suffered catalepsy, a form of paralysis: a sudden nerve disorder that causes stiffness and immobilization of muscles, completely preventing the patient from moving and reading. But the hypothesis has not yet been confirmed by health authorities.
For now, the technical committee has been tasked with «thoroughly analyzing the case» and establishing a «medical audit to determine responsibility» for the erroneous death certificate, the ministry added in a press release. Relatives of the elderly woman allege medical negligence. «I am slowly recovering from what happened. Now I only ask for my mother’s health to improve . Gilbert Balberan sighed.
