In what could easily be a scene from a horror movie, an old woman woke up inside a coffin after five hours of wake and now she remains in a state hospital in Ecuador, where she had been declared dead, international media reported Monday.
A video released on the Twitter network shows Bella Montoya76, in her already open coffin and breathing with difficulty after the prolonged confinement, while two men assist her, the AFP agency reported today.
With the “left hand hit the box and the hand beat”said the woman’s son, Gilbert Balberán, who on Friday had to manage the donation of the coffin due to lack of money.
“They even gave us a death certificate”, expressed Balberán in a video broadcast in local media. The press echoed the unusual news with headlines that celebrated the “resurrection” of the old woman.
“My mom is on oxygen. Her heart is stable. The doctor pinched her hand and she reacted; they tell me that this is good because it means that she is reacting little by little“added the man in statements published by the newspaper El Universo.
Why was she left for dead?
On Friday Montoya was declared deceased in the Martín Icaza public sanatorium in the coastal town of Babahoyo (southwest).
Montoya entered that hospital “with a presumptive diagnosis of a cerebrovascular accident and had a cardiorespiratory arrest without responding to resuscitation maneuvers, for which the doctor on duty confirmed his death,” admitted the Ministry of Health in a statement.
“Little by little I am assimilating what happened. Now I only ask that my mother’s health improves. I want her alive and by my side,” said Balberán, who had seen the woman on Sunday in the intensive care area.
The health portfolio added that “to analyze this case in depth” it formed a National Technical Committee and that “it will initiate a medical audit to establish responsibilities in the face of the supposed confirmation of death.”
The elderly woman, who would have suffered a catalepsy according to local media, remains intubated and with a reserved diagnosis in the hospital’s Intensive Care Unit (ICU), the ministry said, adding that it will “supervise” the patient’s care
Source: Ambito
