History
2022: Operation table fire during operation
On March 22, 2022, it became known that a table with a patient caught fire in the Shipunovskaya Central District Hospital of the Altai Territory during a laser operation. The regional Ministry of Health began checking.
According to a TASS source in the operational services of the Altai Territory, the man underwent an operation to remove a hernia using a laser. The liquid, which was treated with a table before the operation, caught fire. Everything is in order with the man, he was not injured, the source said.[1]
According to Komsomolskaya Pravda, the pensioner's relatives filed a statement with the prosecutor's office, but the press service of the supervisory authority explained that they did not yet know about this situation, promising to clarify the information.
What exactly happened there is not specified. The victim himself refused to talk about what happened. According to his acquaintance, he is now in the Barnaul clinic, the publication says.
Meanwhile, the fact of what happened to the newspaper was confirmed in the regional Ministry of Health:
According to the Shipunovskaya Central District Hospital, this situation, indeed, was, at present, an official check is being carried out in the medical organization. Nothing threatens the life and health of the patient. |
At the same time, the department did not disclose the details of what happened.