Patient dies after severe burns during surgery in Floreasca Hospital

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