The story of the spouses of doctors from Mariupol/Suspіlne Volin
The doctors' spouses Kirill and Oksana Kirsanov worked as doctors in Mariupol. After the start of a full-scale war, they had to operate on people under fire.
The invaders seized the hospital where the spouses worked, and they, along with their colleagues, were taken hostage. They managed to escape from captivity, but they walked almost 20 kilometers from the city until they were picked up by people who evacuated in their own cars.
Operated in a destroyed hospital
Kirill is a urologist, Oksana is an anesthesiologist, but after the war started, they had to operate on the victims of the shelling of the occupiers. The invaders destroyed the hospital, so operations were carried out without light in operating rooms with broken windows. They performed about 30 operations a day.
There was a sense of desperation. We didn't have a connection, and that was perhaps the worst thing. We were cut off from the world around us and did not know what was happening,” Oksana said.
Oksana was delivering women from a maternity hospital that had been hit by an airstrike. Unfortunately, they failed to save one of the women in labor.
After the seizure of their hospital, they were held hostage by the invaders for 8 days, after which they escaped and walked 20 kilometers on foot.
Now the spouses continue to save people, though in a hospital in Volyn. All that I managed to take with me was documents and a family photo album.
