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Russian doctors conduct heart surgery in burning hospital
Russian doctors have stayed behind in a burning, tsarist-era hospital in the country’s Far East to complete open-heart surgery after a fire broke out on the roof shortly after the operation began.
Key points:
- More than 100 people were evacuated from the building and nobody was injured
- Firefighters used electric ventilators to air the operating rooms
- The heart patient was transferred to another regional hospital for further treatment
Doctors continued to conduct the complicated heart by-pass surgery at the Amur State Medical Academy’s cardiology centre in Blagoveshchensk despite the fire and the loss of electrical power.
Firefighters took more than two hours to put out the blaze.
To air the operating rooms and protect everyone inside from…
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