An elderly woman woke up in a coffin after a five-hour vigil and has now been admitted to a public hospital in Ecuador, where she was pronounced dead, one of her children said.
A video released to Twitter shows Bella Montoya, 76, in the already open coffin breathing labored after prolonged confinement, as two men help her out of the scene. The older woman knocked on the coffin, her son, Gilbert Balberán, said.
“They gave us a death certificate,” Balberán said in a video released by the local press. Several Ecuadorian media celebrated the “resurrection” of the elderly woman.
| The third-aged woman named Bella Montoya has died in hospital in Babahoyo.
They gave it to their son in the middle of the day to perform the vigil, but hours later they died as if they were alive.pic.twitter.com/kOsaqxcnmB
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“My mother is on oxygen. Her heart is stable. The doctor squeezed her hand and she responded. They said that’s good, because it means she responds little by little,” the son writes to the newspaper. the universe.
Bella Montoya was pronounced dead on Friday at Martín Icaza Public Hospital, in the town of Babahoyo, in southwestern Ecuador.
The elderly woman was hospitalized with “a suspected diagnosis of cerebrovascular accident (CVA) and cardiorespiratory arrest, with no response to CPR maneuvers”. “The doctor on duty has confirmed the death,” the health ministry admitted in a statement.
The ministry announced the establishment of a National Technical Commission to investigate the matter and determine responsibilities.
The elderly woman, said to have suffered from catalepsy according to the local press, remains intubated and with a reserved diagnosis in the hospital’s Intensive Care Unit, the ministry informed that the patient’s care will be “supervised”.
Source: DN
