“I didn’t feel any pain”: Okhmatdyt doctor recalls the moment a rocket hit the hospital
10 July 2024 21:00
Okhmatdyt surgeon Oleh Holubchenko, who was performing surgery on a child when a Russian missile hit the hospital building, spoke about how he felt at the time. This was reported by [Kommersant] with reference to TSN.
“When the surgeon heard the explosions, he first thought that the missiles were not aimed at the children’s hospital. But the entire medical team sped up their work, trying to complete the operation as quickly as possible.
“We still had about an hour to work there. And then there was a whistle and I found myself on the floor, glass flying, windows shattering,” Holubchenko recalls.
The entire operating team managed to survive. However, the ventilator that was “breathing” for the little patient on the operating table was smashed by the explosion. Then the doctors began to supply air to the child’s lungs using a special device – an Ambu bag. They took the little patient in their arms and went down to the bomb shelter with him.
After that, Oleg Golubchenko called his pregnant wife and reassured her with the news that he had survived. Only then did the man rush towards the destroyed toxicology building to clear the rubble. While doing this, he did not notice the pain and did not pay attention to the large blood stain on his surgical “pyjamas”. Later it turned out that the man was walking with a piece of glass in his body.
