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A woman who has been unconscious for three weeks has regained consciousness at Guayaquil hospital in Ecuador, where she was admitted in the midst of a coronavirus epidemic and pronounced dead following an identity error, her family announced on Friday.
The death of 74-year-old Alba Maruri was announced on March 27 after she was hospitalized with fever and breathing difficulties.
His relatives received a body a week later, which was burned without having been previously identified by his family.
Ms. Maruri “was unconscious for three weeks and with this madness of the Covid, (at the hospital) we confused the names and we declared her dead,” said her nephew, Juan Carlos Ramirez, on social networks, before to confirm his story by telephone to AFP.
“We don’t know who the ashes are from”
The septuagenarian, waking up on Thursday, gave the doctors her name and her sister Aura’s phone number to be called. “The doctors went to my aunt’s house [Aura] to verify and report the error, “said Juan Carlos Ramirez.
“We still don’t know who the ashes are who are at home,” also noted the nephew.
Ms. Maturi “is fine,” he said, adding that the family would seek compensation from the hospital for the cost of the cremation and “for the pain of the supposed death”.
“My sister is in a room, awaiting her release. It’s a miracle. It had been a month since she died. And I had someone else’s ashes … “said Aura.
Guayaquil, the economic capital of Ecuador and its most populous city, is the epidemic center of the country, with more than 22,000 cases of coronavirus and 576 deaths. The government also speaks of 1,060 other “probable” deaths from the Covid-19, for which tests have not been carried out.
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