A 27-year-old Russian woman has died after doctors mistakenly filled her IV bag with a solution containing formaldehyde.
Ekaterina Fedyaeva was said to be undergoing routine surgery at a hospital in Ulyanovsk, in the Volga Federal District of Russia, when the hospital provided her on a formalin drip, which contains formaldehyde and is used to prevent corpses from decomposing, FOX News reports.
Doctors had allegedly intended to put Fedyaeva on a saline solution drip.
“This is pure murder,” said Galina , according to reports. “[It] was simply eroding her body from inside.”
Baryshnikova added that Fedyaeva suffered tremendously before falling into a coma as a result of the hospital’s mistake.
“Her legs were moving, she had convulsions, her whole body was shaking,” said Baryshnikova. “I put socks on her, then a robe, then a blanket but she was shivering to such an extent, I can’t even describe it.”