NEW YORK (VINnews) — Seven people died and dozens were poisoned after a diagnostic center in St. Petersburg, Russia mistakenly gave them deadly chemicals prior to being x-rayed, according to a New York Post article.
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Doctors allegedly told the people to “swallow battery fluid”, causing irreparable damage to their intestines and leading to agonizing and painful deaths. A senior doctor at the diagnostic center has been arrested as part of a criminal probe into the mix-up, accused of using industrial fluids not for human consumption.
Dr. Yevgeny Popov is being held on suspicion of causing death by negligence and providing services that did not meet the required standards.
The patients reportedly drank the fatal fluid, dubbed “battery fluid” because batteries also contain barium salts, as they prepared for stomach and oesophogal x-rays. However they soon suffered horrific symptoms which were allegedly disregarded by the doctors. At least four patients passed away within hours and
Pathologist Zhanna Shmidt told local newspaper Moskovsky Komsomolets: “In this clinic, they simply took an uncertified powder and dissolved it in water.
“What they received was actually battery fluid. This is not a metaphor – it’s how it was. Car batteries also contain barium salts.
“As I understand it, this technical powder was sold for some kind of laboratory research, and not for oral use.
“In reality, it turns out that people drank battery fluid, naturally causing damage to the intestine, severe burns, poisoning.”
A 60-year-old woman was the first victim to be rushed to hospital, before she tragically passed away 12 hours later. A 42-year-old father of 4 was also admitted to hospital after his condition deteriorated after the x-ray. He died a few hours later..
His heartbroken widow Alexandra, 38, said he had complained to doctors while drinking the liquid that “he felt dizzy and his eyes went dark.”
She explained: “He told the doctors about it, but they replied that it was normal, that this could happen. He finished it all, carried out the procedure.
“He said that he was not well, they said: ‘Go home, and lie down.’ He came home in a terrible state, he could not stand normally.
“Then it got worse, vomiting began. He said he could not feel his hands, his face was all numb. He felt some poisonous chemical solution was inside him.”
Others suffered similar symptoms and three more people died February 1st, as well as another person who died February 4th.
Viktoria Andreeva described how her mother Tatyana, 66, had suffered an excruciating death on the same day she drank the substance ahead of the x-ray.
She said: “I don’t understand how a hospital can give a chemical that affects the human body so much that people die in a few hours. It is very strange.”
Another victim, Lyudmila Rechinskaya, 75, immediately felt unwell after the examination, before noticing blood in her vomit, her daughter Anna said.
The grieving Anna even accused medics of trying to cover up the scandal that has rocked the country.
Another man mourning his mother, Dmitry Eryomin, claimed he had returned home to find her extremely unwell before she died later that night.
It quickly emerged that all of the affected patients had each visited the same clinic in St Petersburg and drank the fluid.
But there are fears that many more victims were handed the deadly dose and could be dismissing their symptoms of acute nausea and sickness.
Russia’s Investigative Committee has launched a criminal investigation into the incidents.
Things happen when you have state run medical care and trying to save money.
That is outrageous!
this is obviously done on purpose.
maybe it was Ukrainian saboteurs? The Ukrainians are notorious for gruesomness as they did the work that the SS considered hedious like ripping apart babies. BTW these are the guys that senile Joe wants to start a war to help as his druggie son has millions on the line to continue his drug habits and “art”.