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https://www.straitstimes.com/world/europe/romanian-woman-dies-after-igniting-during-hospital-op
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.
Contact with the flammable disinfectant caused combustion and the patient “ignited like a torch”, lawmaker Emanuel Ungureanu said on his Facebook page, citing medical staff at the capital’s Floreasca urgent care hospital.
A nurse threw a bucket of water onto the 66-year-old Romanian to prevent the December 22 fire from spreading.
The health ministry vowed to investigate the “unfortunate incident”.
“The surgeons should have been aware that it is prohibited to use an alcohol-based disinfectant during surgical procedures performed with an electric scalpel,” deputy minister Horatiu Moldovan said.
The victim’s family said the medical staff had spoken of an “accident”, but declined to offer details.
Despite some improvements due to increased funding, Romania’s hospital system still suffers from dilapidated equipment and a shortage of doctors, and finds itself at the heart of repeated scandals.
In a 2015 nightclub fire that killed 64 people – 26 on site and 38 others later – a former health minister stands accused of having delayed, and even blocked, the transfer of burn victims abroad.
They subsequently died in ill-equipped Romanian hospitals. An inquiry is still ongoing.
The Bodhisattva “Medicine King” (Bhaishajyaraja) chapter of the Lotus Sutra was associated with auto-cremation. In a previous life, ‘Medicine King’ Bodhisattva burnt his body as a supreme offering to the Buddha. The Lotus Sutra describes the Bodhisattva Sarvarupasamdarsana drinking scented oils, wrapping his body in an oil-soaked cloth, and burning himself. His body flamed for 1,200 years, he was reincarnated, burned off his forearms for 72,000 years, which enabled many to achieve enlightenment, and his arms were miraculously restored.
-https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-immolation#History-
As of 5 June 2017 there have been 148 confirmed and two disputed self-immolations reported in Tibet since 27 February 2009, when Tapey, a young monk from Kirti Monastery, set himself on fire in the marketplace in Ngawa City, Ngawa County, Sichuan. In 2011, a wave of self-immolations by Tibetans in Tibet, as well as in India and Nepal, occurred after the self-immolation of Phuntsog of 16 March 2011 in Ngawa County, Sichuan.
-https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-immolation_protests_by_Tibetans_in_China-
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