MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian doctors stayed behind in a burning, tsarist-era hospital in the country's Far East on Friday to complete open-heart surgery after a fire broke out on the roof while they were operating. A group of eight doctors and nurses completed the operation in two hours before removing the patient to another site, the emergencies ministry said. The ministry said 128 people were immediately evacuated from the hospital as the fire broke out on the roof. "The clinic was built more than a century ago, in 1907, and the fire spread like lightning through the wooden ceilings of the roof," the ministry said. (Reporting by Maria Vasilyeva; writing by Tom Balmforth; Editing by Hugh Lawson)

Source: The Star April 02, 2021 16:36 UTC