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The patient underwent surgery to remove cancer caught fire in the state hospital in Athens. The 72-year-old woman survived this unprecedented incident and received 2nd degree burns by 4% of her body.
According to the initial media reports, the fire was most likely caused by a problem with diaterhin used for hemostasis. Diatermia is the use of high -frequency alternating current for cutting or coagulation of tissues during surgery. This method allows you to make accurate cuts with minimal blood loss and is now used in almost all surgical disciplines.
Tragic incident It occurred on Thursday afternoon in the Alexander’s hospital in the center of Athens. Doctors and nurses who participated in the operation, which had just been completed, were horrified and hastened to use everything they could find (fabrics, etc.) to extinguish the flame surrounding the patient's body. The fire was extinguished in a few seconds.
The diathermy system was placed under the body of the patient during this operation. She received 2nd degree burns on her body and chest and is in “good condition” in the same hospital, a plastic surgeon takes care of her.
The administration of the hospital has already ordered an urgent investigation to find out the causes of the tragic incident. Doctors and nurses who were in the operating room are caused to testify.
According to scenarios circulating in the media, either the device was not served, or there was a human mistake in the wrong handling. “This is a tragic event. There are companies to maintain these systems, and it should have been performed properly, ”said Mikhail Giannakas, president of the Federation of employees of state hospitals (Poedin) in an interview with Mega TV.
Later on Friday, the 1st Department of Health issued a statement to explain how the patient underwent the planned operation to remove cancer caught fire.
According to the medical news site HealthReport.gr, which announced the tragic incident, the 1st Department said that “during the operation, and closer to its completion, possibly due to a sudden failure in medical equipment of the operating room, there was a flame from which the patient of the age of 2 received burns of the 2nd degree.”
The Minister of Health Adonis Georgiadis described the incident as “unacceptable”, in the post in X adding that he ordered an urgent investigation and promised to punish the perpetrator.
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“Regarding an unacceptable incident with the patient who received a burn in the Alexander’s hospital, I instructed an immediate conduct of an official investigation with the participation of a special expert. I wish the patient a speedy recovery, I apologize and promise that the incident will be investigated, and the guilty will be punished. ”
The Greeks commented on his post, noting that the hospitals are in such a disgusting state that there is nothing surprising in what happened. “We all know who is guilty …”, one of the users wrote, accusing the minister of serious reductions of the Greece public health system.
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