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Bella Montoya, a 76-year-old woman from Ecuador who woke up at her own funeral after being declared dead, has died after spending a week in intensive care. Montoya had catalepsy, a condition in which a person has a seizure, loses consciousness and then becomes rigid. Her cause of death was an ischemic stroke, according to the Ecuadorian health ministry. The hospital has formed a committee to study how it issues death certificates.
A 76-year-old woman in Ecuador was declared dead by a doctor after suffering a stroke and was placed in a casket for a viewing at a funeral home. However, her family noticed her moving and struggling to breathe four hours later. She was rushed to the hospital and placed under intensive care. Medical experts believe she was in a state of catalepsy. Her son plans to file an incident report accusing the hospital of negligence.
Mourners at an Ecuadorian wake were shocked when their "dead" relative, Bella Montoya, 76, began banging on the inside of her coffin. The wake was held just four hours after Montoya was declared dead, with a medical examiner even providing a death certificate. Montoya's cause of death was listed as cardiorespiratory arrest, which caused her to suffer catalepsy. She is now being tended to at the same hospital that declared her dead, and her son says she is in stable condition. Ecuador's Ministry of Health has assigned a technical team to investigate why a death certificate was erroneously issued.