An elderly woman thought to be dead woke up moments before being cremated. Shakuntala Gaikwad tested positive for Covid-19 at the beginning of May and isolated at her home in Baramati in Mudhale, India.
When the
78-year-old started to develop severe symptoms family members called an
ambulance which took her to hospital.
While they
struggled to find her a bed in the rammed hospital, Ms Gaikwad fell unconscious
in the ambulance.
The ambulance
staff allegedly confirmed the woman’s death and the devastated family members
spread the sad news.
Ms Gaikwad
was then taken back to her home village where the family started preparing for
her cremation and last rites.
Moments
before she was to be cast into the fire the septuagenarian opened her eyes and
began to cry.
She was
immediately shifted to the Silver Jubilee Hospital in Baramati for further
treatment, said hospital founder Dr Sadanand Kale, VN Express reported.
Ms Gaikward’s
remarkably close brush with death comes as India remains in the grips of a
ferocious wave of coronavirus.
The country
currently leads the world in the daily average number of new deaths reported,
accounting for one in every 3 deaths reported worldwide each day.
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