Surgeons Performs Surgery On baby In Kyiv Blackout

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Surgeons Performs Surgery on baby In Kyiv Blackout

Surgeons Performs Surgery on baby In Kyiv Blackout: When Russian missiles struck the Ukrainian capital on November 23, Kyiv Heart Institute lost the majority of its electricity.

Despite the lack of electricity, a team of doctors and nurses continued doing their work, using electrical generators and the dim light of handheld LED torches to operate on a baby’s heart.

Surgeons Performs Surgery on baby In Kyiv Blackout, Three surgeons huddle around an operating table as two others wearing scrubs hold up phones and lights. (Source: Facebook)

The hospital successfully conducted 10 open-heart procedures on the attack day.

Professor Borys Todurov, who oversaw the crews as they worked in the dark, spoke with the Media.

Gem O’Reilly:

Yesterday I interviewed one of the most well-known surgeons in Ukraine. He and his team have had to operate on people during the blackouts caused by the war. Watch here.

 

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