Romanian woman dies after being set on fire during surgery
By DW
31 December 2019 |
1:45 pm
A patient has died after she was set alight during surgery for cancer, succumbing to burns on 40 percent of her body. Surgeons had used an electric scalpel and flammable disinfectant in close proximity.
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