The doctors were midway through the operation when the lights went out.“It was a few days ago, when they were doing a caesarian section,” recalls Oleksandr Kachur, head of Kyiv’s Perinatal Centre. “For about 15 minutes they had to work with torchlight, before the generator kicked in.”Similar conditions recently befell surgeons operating on a child’s heart in Ukraine’s capital, according to footage posted online last week.
Caesareans by torchlight: Ukraine’s doctors are operating without electricity
Caesareans by torchlight: Ukraine’s doctors are operating without electricity
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