AGMA - Amur State Medical Academy of the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation

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2021: Cardiac Center Fire

On April 2, 2021, a fire occurred in the heart center of the Amur State Medical Academy. The fire covered an area of ​ ​ 1.6 thousand. For reconnaissance from the air, an unmanned aviation system was involved.

The Main Directorate of the Ministry of Emergencies reported that 120 people were evacuated from the building built in the early 1900s. At the same time, seven health workers and one patient who underwent the operation remained in the heart center.

Fire in the heart center of the Amur State Medical Academy

The operation was carried out on the open. heart It was impossible to stop her. It was successful. The patient and the operating team were evacuated after the completion of the operation, the To Interfax heart center told "."

Komsomolskaya Pravda managed to communicate with eyewitnesses. One of the employees of the center was near the same operating room at the time when there was a struggle - on the one hand - with the flame, on the other - for the life of a person.

You see, the operations in the heart center are painted so tightly that they go from morning to late evening, "says the employee of the center, who wished to maintain anonymity. - Some of them are laparoscopic, without cuts, roughly speaking, "two holes," and all. But one patient had open heart surgery, the whole chest was "turned," the operation cannot be stopped or transported anywhere. Of course, the doctor and his assistants remained in place, they could not do otherwise.

The Ministry of Health of the Amur Region reported that one of the patients of the medical institution was transported by the resuscitation team immediately after the operation.

The Ministry of Health of the region specified that at 14:00 (8:00 Moscow time) the Amur Regional Clinical Hospital (AOKB) received 16 patients of the cardiocenter, of which 13 people were delivered by ambulance teams, three patients - by the territorial center of disaster medicine.^[1][2]

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