OAB-MT Says Ana Castela’s Cousin Died After Postpartum Complications in Cuiabá

Overview

• The Ordem dos Advogados do Brasil in Mato Grosso attributed Paula Proença Castela Ribeiro’s death to complications of pregnancy and the postpartum period.
• She underwent an emergency childbirth before her death in Cuiabá on October 23, according to family and media reports.
• The church told TV Centro América the newborn is a boy who was born premature and is hospitalized in a neonatal ICU.
• A day earlier, Ana Castela urged followers to donate A- and O- blood at Hemosan next to Hospital Santa Helena to help her cousin.
• Paula was an attorney from Cáceres and a member of the Assembleia de Deus Nova Aliança; she leaves a husband, a daughter and the newborn, with outlets reporting her age as either 35 or 36 and no detailed medical findings released.