The daughter of a patient who died from barium in St. Petersburg spoke about the circumstances of her mother’s death

The daughter of a patient who died in St. Petersburg after examining her stomach with a counterfeit drug told the details of her mother’s death.

According to REN TV, Victoria Andreeva’s mother took an x-ray of the stomach with contrast on December 23. Shortly after returning home, she became ill with severe nausea and vomiting “with something white that looked like cement.” The doctors who arrived on call gave the woman two injections and left. Some time later she died.

“I don’t understand how a hospital can have some kind of chemical that enters the human body so much that people die in a few hours,” said the woman’s daughter.

Recall that from January 10 to January 26, 23 patients were injured due to the use of barium in the City Consultative and Diagnostic Center No. 123, three of them died. Patients underwent X-ray examination in the clinic. Barium sulfate is usually used as a contrast agent, but then a counterfeit chemical was used instead.

The head physician was detained, a case was opened against him for causing death by negligence and the provision of services that do not meet the requirements for the safety of life and health of consumers.