The nearly 2-minute-long video has been viewed over 15,000 times on Twitter.
A dramatic video showing a team of Ukrainian surgeons performing heart surgery on a child in a darkened Kyiv hospital after Russian missiles failed to hit the capital city is going viral on social media.
Social media user Irina Voychuk posted on Twitter: “During the Russian missile attack on Ukraine today, power was cut off at the Heart Institute in Kyiv. Surgeons were performing emergency heart surgery on a child.” Video on Thursday.
Watch the video below:
Kyiv’s Heart Institute was cut off during Russia’s missile attack on Ukraine today. At this time, surgeons were performing emergency heart surgery on the child. pic.twitter.com/GqhxpXpYVC
— Iryna Voichuk (@IrynaVoichuk) November 23, 2022
The nearly 2-minute-long video has been viewed over 15,000 times on Twitter. The footage showed a team of surgeons continuing to operate in limited lighting. Except for the surgeons’ headlamps, the room was pitch dark. The bright overhead light normally seen in the operating room also did not operate.
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According to newsweek“That’s how we do heart surgery today,” said one of the doctors in the video, adding that the operation involves a cardiopulmonary bypass to replace two heart valves. “No one knows what happened, but the operating room went completely black,” said the doctor, sarcastically telling the Russians to “enjoy”.
He said, “There’s a baby on the operating table today. And in the middle of surgery the power went out completely. Good job. Very humane people.”
Hundreds of Twitter users praised the surgeons in the comments section of the post, calling them heroes. One user wrote, “These surgeons are heroes!!! Good friends. Best.” “In the eye of the storm of war. Calm, hardworking and professional Ukrainian med and surgical heroes,” said another.
Meanwhile, the incident comes after Russia fired nearly 70 missiles at Kyiv and several other Ukrainian cities on Wednesday, disconnecting the country’s nuclear power plants from the power grid for the first time in 40 years. new york post informed of.
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About 10 people were killed and 30 others were injured in this attack. After the barrage, residents of Kyiv sought electricity, heat, and clean water. Some people also put water bottles under the drain pipe to collect rain water for drinking. About half of Kyiv’s residents were still without power on Friday.
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