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Kharkiv's hospital continues working amid shelling

(30 Mar 2022) Kharkiv's hospital staff continue with their work amid Russia's shelling of the city. Medics in the Institute of General and Emergency Surgery said they drown out the sound of shelling with hard rock and jazz music. "It's essential to ensure that our hands are not trembling during the explosions, but I think we've gotten used to it", said cardiologist Ketevan Gamisonia. During the first days of the invasion, medics were transporting patients to the basement of the hospital, but as the fighting continued it became too difficult to move patients back and forth, said head of the department Olha Buchneva. "We calmed down a little bit. Now we are mostly living in corridors," Buchneva said. She said medics started conducting minimally invasive cardiac surgeries to release patients as soon as possible from the hospital. But some of the patients said they would prefer to stay in the hospital as their homes were close to the frontline. A teacher at one of Kharkiv's schools, Oleksandr Lykhovit, said he spent 11 days moving from one shelter to another until he settled with his cat at the hospital. "We have found refuge here, and we are not going back there. It's very dangerous there", he said. Many doctors are also living in the hospital now as the treacherous journey home is no longer safe. Anaesthesiologist Alyona Ivashova shares a ward with two other colleagues who, like her, wanted to stay and continue helping people. Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork Twitter:   / ap_archive   Facebook:   / aparchives   ​​ Instagram:   / apnews   You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/you...