This was reported to TASS in the press service of the regional Ministry of Health.

“The operated patient was taken to the Amur regional clinical hospital,” the ministry said.

The fire in the building of the cardiac surgery center occurred on Friday, April 2.

The roof caught fire.

Staff and patients - 67 people - were evacuated.

The mayor of the city, Oleg Imameev, according to Life.ru, said that one team of doctors refused to leave the burning cardio center.

The doctors continued to perform the operation on one of the patients.