Donetsk doctors wearing body armor and helmets pulled a mine fuse from a patient

freepik.com | Freepik Company SLDoctors in Donetsk often deal with difficult patients. They are sometimes operated in difficult conditions. A patient was admitted to a hospital in Donetsk with a mine stuck in his body. This was told by Professor Andrey Korolkov, head of the Department of Emergency General Surgery at the First St. Petersburg State Medical University, who now works in Donbass. According to him, doctors had to wear bulletproof vests and helmets.“They brought in an injured man with an unexploded mine in the gluteal area on the right. The surgeons received bulletproof vests and helmets. Thank God everything went well for both the injured and the surgeon. Nothing exploded, everyone stayed alive”, quotes the doctor RIA News .