April 9, 2018
A 27-year-old woman has died in excruciating agony after she was embalmed alive due to a horrific medical blunder. Ekaterina Fedyaeva's mother has accused medics of 'murder' after they put her daughter on a formalin drip - a solution contain formaldehyde - instead of saline. The woman had been in hospital in her home city of Ulyanovsk in Russia for routine surgery. She was given a drip normally infused into the veins of the dead to prevent decomposition. Ekaterina suffered horrible pains and convulsions for two days before falling into a coma. She was attached to a life support machine and her heart stopped several times. After being flown to a top Moscow hospital, she woke up from her coma - but finally died of multiple organ failure. Her mother Galina Baryshnikova and husband Igor were with her when she came round from the surgery in her ward. 'Her legs were moving, she had convulsions, her whole body was shaking,' said her mother.
'People who performed the surgery already knew that they infused something wrong. 'They needed to take some urgent measures - but they did nothing.' She begged doctors to help - but they told her to go home, cook chicken soup and stop worrying. 'I begged – 'please help her, she is my only child',' said Galina. 'I think they just wanted me to go away and to hide everything.' Overnight Ekaterina was rushed to intensive care as her condition deteriorated. 'For 14 hours after surgery she was living with this formalin and they did nothing,' she said. Medics used 52 drugs in a desperate attempt to save the woman, then she was flown to the Moscow hospital but tragically died. 'It is such a crime,' she said. 'I spoke to the criminal investigator, and he told me it was negligence. 'But this is pure murder.' Ekaterina was buried on 7 April and a criminal investigation is underway.
