The mission to find the four siblings, called Operation Hope, captured the imagination of Colombians as reports of clues to their whereabouts fueled longing they would be found safely despite spending more than a month in the inhospitable jungle. The siblings were found on Friday in Colombia’s Caqueta province according to the country’s armed forces and were initially treated by military medics who had been among the search teams searching for them. No details have been released about the doctor who had prematurely declared the woman dead.īOGOTA, Colombia: Four Indigenous children who were missing for more than five weeks in a jungle in Colombia’s south following a deadly plane crash arrived in the capital Bogota early on Saturday for medical treatment. She was under intubation, and doctors weren’t giving relatives much hope about her prognosis, Barbera said. Though he and relatives rushed her back to the hospital Friday, she was still in serious condition Monday. My mom was wrapped in sheets and hitting the coffin, and when we approached we could see that she was breathing heavily.” “After about five hours of the wake, the coffin started to make sounds. “There were about 20 of us there,” Barbera said. The family then brought her to a funeral home and were holding a wake later Friday when they started to hear strange sounds. Montoya initially had been admitted Friday at the hospital with a possible stroke and cardiopulmonary arrest, and when she did not respond to resuscitation a doctor on duty declared her dead, the ministry said.īarbera said 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.
A technical committee has been formed to review how the hospital issues death certificates, the ministry said in a statement. “It gave us all a fright,” Barbera said, adding that doctors have said his mother’s situation remains dire.Įcuador’s Health Ministry said that Montoya was in intensive care Monday at the Martín Icaza Hospital in Babahoyo while the ministry investigates doctors involved in her case. Relatives left the coffin behind and rushed retired nurse Bella Montoya back to the hospital after the wake Friday in the central city of Babahoyo, son Gilberto Barbera told The Associated Press. 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.
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