an Elderly resident of Ecuador woke up a month later after the doctors declared her dead. This writes the local newspaper El Comercio.
74-year-old Alba Maruri Granda fell ill on March 27. Her temperature rose to 42 degrees and started having trouble breathing. The woman was taken to the hospital of Guayaquil, where she went into a coma. The evening of the same day, doctors declared the patient deceased and reported the death to the relatives.
In fact, the doctors mixed up the names of the patients and gave the family the body of another person as the woman remained unconscious in the hospital. Relatives Grants almost spent a month with the ashes of the unknown, waiting for the lifting of emergency in the country due to the pandemic coronavirus to allow burial of the remains.
24 APR pensioner came to herself, told the nurse his name and phone number to contact sister. Currently, the woman awaiting discharge from the hospital.
the Doctors apologized to the family of the Grants, acknowledging the error. “We understand what they went through, at that time there was chaos with so many dead and infected,” — said her niece Laura Morla.
relatives of the Giants intend to file a lawsuit against the hospital for reimbursement for funeral services cremation. They expect to get about two thousand dollars.
