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Her surgery was supposed to be routine. Instead, this Russian woman was ‘embalmed alive.’
Washington Post ^

Posted on 04/09/2018 7:46:38 PM PDT by BenLurkin

Fedyaeva was advised that she needed a routine laparoscopic procedure to remove the cysts, relatives said, so she underwent surgery last month at a hospital in Ulyanovsk, a city in western Russia, according to RT, a Russian government-owned television network.

During the operation, medical personnel made a tragic and irreparable mistake: Russia's state-controlled news agency, Tass, reported that instead of administering saline solution, medical personnel mistakenly gave Fedyaeva formalin, a solution that contains formaldehyde — which is used to preserve dead bodies. The medical team tried to wash Fedyaeva's abdominal cavity, according to Tass, but it was too late.

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Rashid Abdullov, minister of health, family and social well-being for the Ulyanovsk region, called it “a terrible tragedy.”

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It's still unclear exactly how it happened, but Abdullov said medical personnel neglected to read the label on the lethal chemical before administering it to Fedyaeva during the operation, according to RT.

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Ulyanovsk Gov. Sergey Morozov and local authorities have opened a criminal investigation into the incident and, on the governor's orders, the head doctor at the hospital in Ulyanovsk, as well as other medical personnel involved in the operation, has been dismissed, according to local news reports. If criminally charged and convicted, the medical personnel could face time in prison, according to the reports.

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TOPICS: Health/Medicine
KEYWORDS: formalin
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To: BenLurkin
It happened to Hillary too, but she more or less survived, other than occasionally walking like a zombie.


21 posted on 04/10/2018 2:59:59 AM PDT by Pollster1 ("Governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed")
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To: cherry

It isn’t embalming fluid. It has formaldehyde in it.

It’s used in disinfectants. It’s used in clinical areas. But in surgery? Someone really screwed up.


22 posted on 04/10/2018 3:03:18 AM PDT by Vermont Lt
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To: BenLurkin

Gee, we are sorry we killed you and couldn’t disguise it as natural causes.


23 posted on 04/10/2018 4:42:58 AM PDT by Delta 21 (Build The Wall !! Jail The Cankle !!)
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