Medics perform heart surgery as hospital burns

[Eldorado]

A medical team successfully completed heart surgery as fire brigades fought a blaze on the hospital roof, and rescuers evacuated patients and medical staff.  

Sixty seven patients were taken to safety, and all but eight of the staff who were at the operation theatre were ordered to leave. 

‘The patient needed coronary artery bypass graft surgery, one of the most complicated cardiac surgeries. We had to continue, there was no decision-making about it, it just had to go on.

'We completed it in full,’ chief surgeon Valentin Filatov said.

Siberian Times report

Edited April 4, 2021 by Eldorado