They are sure to withstand the heat.
A team of Russian doctors performed open-heart surgery, even when the flames consumed his hospital.
The eight doctors and nurses were left behind to finish the procedure after a fire broke out on the roof of the Blagoveshchensk city clinic in the Far East on Friday.
“We can’t do anything else. We had to save the person, “surgeon Valentin Filatov told Russian channel REN TV.
“We’ve done it all at the highest level.”
Firefighters, who took more than two hours to put out the fire, said they used fans to keep the smoke out of the operating room and passed a power cord to keep it powered.
The surgery also took about two hours to complete, before the patient was taken to another hospital, the country’s emergency ministry said.
About 128 people were immediately evacuated after the fire.
“The clinic was built more than a century ago, in 1907, and the fire spread like lightning through the wooden roofs of the roof,” the ministry said.
With publishing cables
