A 27-year-old Russian woman who had been in a hospital in Ulyanovsk for a routine surgery, has died after medical staff put her on a formalin drip, a solution that contains formaldehyde, instead of saline.
And now Ekaterina Fedyaeva’s mother is calling murder because she repeatedly begged doctors to help “but they told her to go home, cook chicken soup and stop worrying.”1
Fedyaeva’s bereaved mother said:
“We had no idea it was formalin. And they knew very well that they washed up her body with a poison – and they did nothing to help…Now I understand that formalin was simply eroding her body from inside. People who performed the surgery already knew that they infused something wrong.
They needed to take some urgent measures – but they did nothing. I begged – ‘please help her, she is my only child’. I think they just wanted me to go away and to hide everything.”2
After searching for doctors to help her daughter who was suffering from horrible pains and convulsions, Galina says she found doctors in a huddle discussing just how to explain to the family that a terrible mistake had been made.
After being flown to a top Moscow hospital, she briefly woke up from her coma but finally succumbed to multiple organ failures.
Galina said,
“It is such a crime. I spoke to the criminal investigator, and he told me it was negligence. But this is pure murder.”3
The 27-year-old was buried on 7 April and a criminal investigation is underway.
