The nearly 2-minute video has been viewed more than 15,000 times on Twitter.
A dramatic video of a team of Ukrainian surgeons performing heart surgery on a child in a dark Kiev hospital after Russian missiles knocked out power in the capital has gone viral on social media.
“Today, during the Russians’ missile attack on Ukraine, the electricity was cut off at the Heart Institute in Kiev. At that time, surgeons performed emergency surgery on the child’s heart,” social media user Iryna Voichuk wrote on Twitter as she shared the video on Thursday.
Watch the video below:
Today, during the Russian missile attack on Ukraine, the electricity went out at the Heart Institute in Kiev. At that time, surgeons performed emergency heart surgery on the child. pic.twitter.com/GqhxpXpYVC
— Iryna Voichuk (@IrynaVoichuk) November 23, 2022
The nearly 2-minute video has been viewed more than 15,000 times on Twitter. The footage showed a team of surgeons continuing the operation with limited light. Aside from the surgeons’ headlamps, darkness filled the room. The bright overhead light typically seen in the operating room was also not powered.
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According to News Week, one of the doctors in the video said, “That’s how we perform heart surgery these days,” adding that the surgery involves cardiopulmonary bypass to replace two heart valves. “No one knows what happened, but the operating room is completely blacked out,” the doctor said, sarcastically telling the Russians to rejoice.
“Today it’s a child on the operating table. And during the operation the power went out completely. Well done. Very humane people,” he added.
In the comment section of the post, hundreds of Twitter users praised the surgeons as heroes. “These surgeons are heroes!!! Good best friend to have. The best,” one user wrote. “In the eye of the storm of war. Calm, diligent and professional Ukrainian medical and surgical heroes,” said another.
Meanwhile, this incident comes after Russia fired about 70 missiles at Kiev 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 reported.
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About 10 people were killed in the attack and another 30 were injured. After the barrage, Kiev residents sought power, heat and clean water. Some people even resorted to keeping water bottles under drainpipes to collect rainwater for drinking. Nearly half of Kiev’s residents were still without electricity on Friday.
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