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The Ecuadorian Minister of Health, Juan Carlos Zevallos, described on Saturday as “creepy” the case of a woman hospitalized in Guayaquil, epicenter of the coronavirus pandemic, who was presumed dead in an identity confusion and regained consciousness.
Alba Maruri, 74, entered the hospital with fever and respiratory problems on March 27, and hours later she was pronounced dead, according to the patient’s family.
His relatives received a body after a week, which was immediately cremated in the midst of the coronavirus health emergency, which in Ecuador has left 22,719 cases, including 576 deaths.
The septuagenarian woke up on Thursday and the hospital staff informed her relatives the next day that she was alive.
Zevallos referred to what happened as “something creepy” during a virtual press conference, and said he had requested a report from the sanatorium authorities.
Maruri “had been unconscious for three weeks and because of the covid madness they confused the names and left her for dead,” her nephew Juan Carlos Ramírez told social media on Friday.
The body was delivered by the Guayaquil hospital to Jaime Morla, a nephew.
The man reported by telephone on Saturday to the Agence France-Presse that he went to the morgue and that almost two meters away from various bodies, as a precaution to avoid the spread of the virus, he pointed out that one of those with his back corresponded to the of her aunt.
“They told me: there is a lady with all the characteristics” described to be able to identify her, said Morla, 39. “The lady I saw dead there was exactly my aunt, anyway, she had her back turned,” he assured.
“I was afraid to see her face, but due to the characteristics, from behind, I saw her”, he pointed.
Morla indicated that “the body was naked, in a black bag, wearing a diaper” and that “then the cover was closed. They immediately put him in the coffin and from there to the float to take her to the Junta (de Beneficencia de Guayaquil, which has a funeral home) for cremation. ”
On the way, Morla made a stop at Maruri’s house, where her younger sister Aura also lives.
The sister, who said that looking at the funeral car and crying told her “rest in peace”, keep the chest with the ashes of an unidentified person.
“I took it and took it to his room, I prayed to him every day,” he added.
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