Patient dies after severe burns during surgery in Floreasca Hospital
Three investigations are currently under way: one of the hospital management, one of the Ministry of Health and another of the Capital Police.
Articol de Radiojurnal, 30 Decembrie 2019, 22:02
Patient who have suffered severe burns during surgery in Bucharest’s Floreasca Hospital has died on Sunday night, one week after surgery.
Patient was a woman aged 66, diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. She suffered burns on 40% of her body, when surgeons used an electric scalpel despite her being treated with an alcohol-based disinfectant. Contact with the flammable disinfectant caused combustion and the patient “ignited like a torch”, said MP Emanuel Ungureanu (Save Romania Union) on his Facebook page, citing medical sources at Floreasca urgent care hospital in Bucharest.
Three investigations are currently under way: one of the hospital management, one of the Ministry of Health and another of the Capital Police.
Source:RRA.Translated by Miruna Matei
