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Can you imagine waking up after having heart surgery being told that the surgeons continued working on you while the roof was on fire?

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A medical team at a Russian hospital successfully completed open-heart surgery on a patient while firefighters battled to contain a serious blaze engulfing the old building's roof. More than 120 people were evacuated and no injuries reported at the hospital in Blagoveshchensk in the far east. The surgery continued thanks to an emergency electricity cable run into the ground-floor operating theatre as fans kept the smoke out. The heart patient was evacuated later. Lead surgeon Valentin Filatov said his team "had to save this person and we did everything". Eight doctors and nurses were involved in the two-hour operation, which started just before the fire broke out. Russia's emergencies ministry said the hospital was built in 1907 in the tsarist era, and the blaze "spread like lightning through the wooden ceilings". A short circuit is thought to have sparked the fire.

Apparently the surgeons did not panic, despite the fact the hospital was the only one in the region with a specialist cardiological unit, meaning the patient would have had nowhere else to go.

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