Emirati woman Munira Abdulla was in a comatose state for 27 years after a car crash. Then she woke up

A woman in the United Arab Emirates has regained consciousness after spending 27 years in a comatose state, according to her family and doctors.

Omar Webair told Abu Dhabi newspaper The National that his mother, Munira Abdulla, began making strange sounds after an argument occurred in her hospital room. A few days later, she spoke for the first time in nearly three decades.

“She was calling my name. I was flying with joy,” he told the newspaper. “For years, I have dreamt of this moment, and my name was the first word she said."

Abdulla had been in a “minimally conscious state” since 1991, according to The National, when the car she and her then-4-year-old son were in collided with a school bus. Webair, cradled by his mother, suffered only bruises, but Abdulla was left with a massive brain injury.

She spent years in Emirati hospitals until April 2017, when the Crown Prince Court gave the family a grant for treatment in Germany, The National reported.

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Doctors at the Schön Clinic in Germany took a holistic approach to Abdulla’s treatment, employing “a combination of physical therapy, medicine, operations and sensory stimulation,” according to Deutsche Welle.

Friedemann Müller, a neurological specialist who treated Abdulla, told Deutsche Welle her condition slowly improved over a few weeks, noting that a vegetative state of "minimal consciousness" is not the same as a coma.

"No patient simply wakes up from a coma after 27 years,” Muller told the station. “She can now interact consciously with her environment and participate in family life again."

Abdullah regained consciousness last year, but her family decided to wait until her condition stabilized before announcing her recovery on Wednesday, Deutsche Welle reported.

“I shared her story to tell people not to lose hope on their loved ones,” Webair told The National. “Don’t consider them dead when they are in such a state.”

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