He said that the team of doctors selflessly worked for 4-5 hours.
They performed planned coronary artery bypass grafting.
"When the fire broke out, the patient was already on the operating table, the chest was opened, that is, the operation could not be stopped," RIA Novosti quotes Alexander Korotkikh.
Korotkikh explained that the two-storey building of the cardio center was de-energized, and the generator supplied electricity to the operating room.
“They turned off the centralized oxygen supply, made oxygen transfer only in the operating room, everyone was given protective respirators, they were not needed - there was no smoke on the ground floor, where the operation was taking place,” he added.
According to the doctor, after the operation, the patient was taken out through the fire exit and taken to the Amur regional hospital in a resuscitation vehicle with mechanical ventilation.
Korotkikh noted that throughout the entire fire he was in touch with the firefighters.
He also added that his knowledge of fire safety techniques, which he had recently completed, helped him a lot.
The medic highly appreciated the well-organized work of the fire brigade, who managed to quickly arrive at the scene before the fire spread to neighboring buildings.
Earlier it was reported that a fire in the cardiological center in Blagoveshchensk, where the fire covered the roof over an area of 1.6 thousand square meters.
m, extinguished.
Russian Minister of Health Mikhail Murashko thanked the selfless doctors of Blagoveshchensk on behalf of the entire Ministry of Health of Russia.