The government is looking into the hospital after a 76-year-old woman who was reported dead at a hospital in Ecuador shocked her family by knocking on her coffin at her wake.
After the wake on Friday in the central city of Babahoyo, family members left the casket behind and took retired nurse Bella Montoya back to the hospital, according to son Gilberto Barbera.
Doctors have stated that his mother’s condition is still critical. “It gave us all a fright,” said Barbera.
According to the Ecuadorian government of Health, Montoya was receiving intensive care on Monday at the Martn Icaza Hospital in Babahoyo as the government looked into the doctors who treated her.
A statement from the government confirms that a technical committee has been established to examine how the hospital provides death certificates.
According to the ministry, Montoya was initially admitted to the hospital on Friday with a potential stroke and cardiac arrest. When she failed to respond to CPR, the attending physician ruled her dead.
When his mother was rushed to the emergency department, according to Barbera, she was unconscious. A few hours later, a doctor told Barbera that his mother had passed away and handed him her identification papers and a death certificate.
The family later took her to a funeral home, where they were conducting a wake when they began to hear unusual noises.
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