Without light and water? under continuous shelling they saved the lives of wounded citizens. Doctors at the Matsuk Hospital in Mariupol were able to hold out for a month and a half until enemy missiles destroyed the facility. Then they were forced to leave their hometown.
The director of the medical institution Andriy Servetyk currently works as a doctor in Kropyvnytskyi. He says that the bombing has not stopped since February 28. And since the beginning of March, water and electricity have disappeared from the hospital. The situation was saved by generators, for which fuel was obtained by the medics themselves under fire.
Due to this, the wounded could be operated on 24 hours a day at adjacent tables in one operating room. The number of victims was in the thousands. Despite the desperate efforts of medics, not everyone could be saved. The most difficult thing to state is the death of children, says pediatric resuscitator Igor Bogdan.
There was a boy about one year old from birth. We took him to the operating room, took off his hat, and there was a head injury with perforation of the skull bones, with the brain coming out. And there was no way to help him…
Three doctors, Andriy Hnatyuk, Serhiy Vlasyuk and Anatoliy Kazantsev, were killed during the enemy shelling at the workplace. Half a hundred workers not only worked, but also lived in the institution, because the occupiers either bombed the house or it was impossible to get to it. At the end of March, no surviving wards remained at the hospital. And the administration decided to evacuate the hospital.
We left through Azovstal under fire. It's like roulette. Someone didn't leave, and all of us left. Then the humiliating procedure of the occupiers' checkpoints, but all survived, says the director of the medical institution, adding that some hospital staff refused to leave and remained to care for the still uncharged patients. However, the occupiers forcibly removed everyone from the facility and turned the hospital into ruins.
Currently, the evacuated doctors and nurses of the Mariupol Hospital № 4 have moved all over Ukraine – to where they were offered a job and a roof over their heads. However, they all hope that when Mariupol becomes Ukrainian, their native hospital will be rebuilt and they will return home.
It should be noted that Mariupol, which is 95% destroyed, has been under blockade by the Russian occupiers since March 1. There have been no communications in the city for almost three months.
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