QUITO, Ecuador: A 76-year-old woman who was declared dead at a hospital in Ecuador astonished her relatives by knocking on her coffin during her wake, and the incident has prompted a government investigation into the hospital.
"It gave us all a fright," Barbera said, adding that doctors have said that his mother's situation remains dire. A technical committee has been formed to review how the hospital issues death certificates, the ministry said in a statement. Barbera said that his mother was unconscious when she was brought to the emergency room and that a few hours later a doctor informed him she was dead and handed over identity documents and a death certificate.
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