Doctors and nurses perform a surgery at a local clinic of cardiac surgery in the city of Blagoveshchensk, Russia April 2, 2021. Russian doctors stayed behind in a burning hospital on April 2, 2021 to complete open heart surgery as a large fire broke out on the roof moments after they had opened up their patient. Press Service of the Governor of Amur Region/Handout via REUTERS ATTENTION EDITORS - THIS IMAGE WAS PROVIDED BY A THIRD PARTY. NO RESALES. NO ARCHIVES. MANDATORY CREDIT.
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian doctors stayed behind in a burning, tsarist-era hospital in the country's Far East on Friday to complete open-heart surgery after a fire broke out on the roof while they were operating.
Firefighters who took more than two hours to put out the blaze in the city of Blagoveshchensk said they used fans to keep smoke out of the operating room and ran in a power cable to keep it supplied with electricity.
