An Ecuadoran woman who was declared dead and then hospitalized after she was found alive inside her coffin has been deemed deceased for a second time, according to health officials in the coastal South American country.
Bella Montoya was initially hospitalized on June 9 at Martín Icaza Hospital, in the central Ecuadoran city of Babahoyo, about 200 miles southwest of the capital, Quito, after a suspected stroke. She went into cardiorespiratory arrest and was declared dead by a doctor.
“The coffin started to make sounds,” Gilberto Barbera told the Associated Press. He said his mother was “wrapped in sheets and hitting the coffin.”But the apparent resurrection did not mean the 76-year-old former nurse had suddenly made a miraculous recovery. Video of the episode showed Montoya being lifted out of the coffin onto a stretcher, with her hospital bracelet still looped around her arm. She was transported back to the hospital in critical condition.
After she was found to be alive, her family worked to have her death certificate reversed so that she would again be eligible for public benefits to cover the cost of her medicine, the Ecuadoran newspaper El UniversoBarbera, her son, had expressed hope that she would be able to leave the hospital alive, the newspaper El Comercio reported. He
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