I can definitely stand the heat.
A team of Russian doctors completed an open heart surgery – even though the flames consumed their hospital.
The eight doctors and nurses were left behind to complete the procedure after a fire broke out on the roof of the clinic in the Far Eastern city of Blagoveshchensk on Friday.
“We can’t do anything else. We had to save that person, “said surgeon Valentin Filatov for the Russian network REN TV.
“I did everything at the highest level.”
Firefighters, who took more than two hours to put out the fire, said they used fans to keep smoke out of the operating room and ran into a power cord to keep it powered.
The operation also lasted about two hours, until the patient was taken to another hospital, the country’s emergency ministry said.
About 128 people were evacuated immediately after the fire broke out.
“The clinic was built more than a century ago in 1907, and the fire spread like wildfire through the wooden ceilings of the roof,” the ministry said.
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