Video .. Doctors perform an open-heart operation during a fire in a Russian hospital

Today, surgeons in the Russian Far East successfully completed an open-heart operation despite the flames that were approaching them due to a fire raging in the hospital, as the Heart Surgery Hospital in the city of Blagovychensk was exposed to a fire in the morning, which led to the evacuation of 128 people amid the spread of thick smoke in the building.

Meanwhile, a team of eight people was performing an open-heart operation on a patient on the ground floor.

The surgeon in charge of the operation, Valentin Filatov, told the "Russia 24" TV channel, "We could not stop ... We had to rescue this person and we did it at the highest level. The operation was completed completely without difficulties."

"There was no panic," said Antonina Smolina, one of the treatment staff.

Relief agencies indicated that the medical team put an electric wire to supply the operating room with power, despite cutting electricity to all parts of the building, and ventilation devices were installed to remove smoke from the place.

"The fire control was complicated because ... the fires were raging over the entire area of ​​the site, that is, 1600 square meters," Konstantin Repalco, deputy director of the emergency situation service in the region, explained in a video recording published by the authorities.

Upon completion of the operation and to ensure that there was no danger to the patient's life, the medical staff took him out of the site and took him with them while leaving the burning building to transfer him to another hospital, according to the local authorities.

The fire caused by an electrical problem was extinguished according to preliminary findings, without any casualties.

And the local authorities promised to honor the doctors who continued the operation and the firefighters who put out the fire.

Video from "euronews"