BUCHAREST (AFP): A woman has died after being set on fire during a hospital operation in Romania, the health ministry said Monday (Dec 30), in a case which has cast a spotlight on the ailing health system.
The pancreatic cancer patient died Sunday after suffering burns to 40 per cent of her body when surgeons used an electrical scalpel despite her being treated with an alcohol-based disinfectant.
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