Impossible for these doctors to stop, even if the flames ravaged their hospital.
The Blagoveshchensk heart surgery clinic in the Far East caught fire late Friday morning.
Inside, a team of eight Russian caregivers had just started open heart surgery on a patient.
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“We had to save this person and we did everything at the highest level.
The operation was completed and without difficulties, ”said Valentin Filatov, the doctor in charge of the operation, on Rossiya 24 television. They benefited from the help of the emergency services, who installed an electric cable until 'in the operating room, when the electricity was cut in the building.
Fans have also been installed to remove the smoke.
When the operation was over, caregivers evacuated the patient from the building, which was still on fire, to transfer him to another hospital, according to local authorities.
The latter assured that the doctors and firefighters who extinguished the fire would be rewarded.