Medics in Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Russia continued surgery on a patient despite a powerful magnitude 8.8 earthquake, the region's health minister Oleg Melnikov said on his Telegram channel on Wednesday (July 30).
CCTV footage shows medics continuing surgery as a powerful 8.8-magnitude earthquake strikes
The doctors stayed with the patient throughout, according to the region's health minister
"Despite the danger, the doctors remained calm and stayed with the patient until the very end," Melnikov wrote, adding that currently the patient is out of danger.
The shallow earthquake damaged buildings and injured several people in the remote Russian region.
Russian scientists said it was the most powerful quake to hit the region since 1952.
Kamchatka and Russia's Far East sit on the Pacific Ring of Fire, a geologically active region that is prone to earthquakes and volcanic eruptions.
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