Russia: Woman ‘embalmed alive’ in hospital error

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A woman was injected with a drug used to stop corpses from decomposing in a horrific incident that’s now the subject of a criminal investigation.

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A Russian woman was killed after allegedly being embalmed alive in a horrific medical blunder. Ekaterina Fedyaeva, 27, is said to have died after medics put her on a formalin drip — a solution containing formaldehyde — instead of saline.

She was in hospital for an unspecified but routine surgery when she was injected with formalin, normally infused into the veins of the dead to prevent decomposition.

Her mother accused physicians of “murder” following the incident in her home city of Ulyanovsk, Russia, The Sun reports. Ekaterina suffered horrible pains and convulsions for two days before falling into a coma.

She was attached to a life support machine but her heart stopped beating several times.

After being flown to another hospital, in Moscow, she briefly woke from her coma before dying of multiple organ failure, according to The Sun.

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