A woman who was hospitalized in Ecuador, unconscious weeks ago, in the midst of a Covid-19 epidemic, woke up to find that her death had been announced due to a mistake in identities.
Alba Maruri, 74, was declared dead on March 27, after being hospitalized in the city of Guayaquil, due to fever and breathing problems.
A week later, her family had a corpse that was incinerated without any relatives identifying it.
Her sister's son, Juan Carlos Ramírez, said that Marori “had been in a coma for three weeks and with mad Covid-19 in hospital there was confusion in the names and she was declared dead.”
And gave the seventieth woman who woke up last Thursday, her name and her sister Aura's phone number to call her, to take her from the hospital after she woke up.
"The doctors went to my aunt's house (Aura) to check for the error," Ramirez said.
"We still don't know who we put his ashes in the house," he added.
He stressed that his aunt was "in good shape," adding that the family had asked the hospital for compensation for the cost of cremation and the "pain and sorrow caused by the death" assumed.
"My sister is in a hospital room waiting to be discharged," Aura told the press. Almost a month has passed since her death was announced, and for the duration of this period, I had kept someone else's ashes. ”
Guayaquil, Ecuador's economic capital and most crowded city, is the epicenter of the Covid-19 epidemic in the country with more than 22,000 infections and 576 deaths.