TSN correspondents talked to the hero doctors from Mariupol .

The director of the medical institution Andriy Servetyk  currently works as a doctor in Kropyvnytskyi. He says that the bombing has not stopped since February 28. And since the beginning of March, water and electricity have disappeared from the hospital. The situation was saved by generators, for which fuel was obtained by the medics themselves under fire.

Due to this, the wounded could be operated on at neighboring tables in one operating room around the clock. The number of victims was in the thousands. Despite the desperate efforts of medics, not everyone could be saved. The most difficult thing to state is the death of children, says pediatric resuscitator Igor Bogdan.

“There was a boy about one year old from birth. We took him to the operating room, took off his hat, and there was a head injury with perforated skull bones, with the brain coming out. And there was no way to help him.” he recalls.

Three doctors , Andriy Hnatyuk, Serhiy Vlasyuk and Anatoliy Kazantsev, were killed during the enemy shelling at the workplace . Half a hundred workers not only worked, but also lived in the institution, because the occupiers either bombed the house or it was impossible to get to it. At the end of March, no surviving wards remained at the hospital. And the administration decided to evacuate the hospital.

We left through Azovstal under fire . It’s like roulette. Someone didn’t leave, and all of us left. Then the humiliating procedure of the occupiers’ checkpoints, but all survived, says the director of the medical institution, adding that some hospital staff refused to leave and remained to care for the still uncharged patients. However, the occupiers forcibly removed everyone from the facility and turned the hospital into ruins.

Currently, the evacuated doctors and nurses of the Mariupol Hospital № 4 have moved all over Ukraine – to where they were offered a job and a roof over their heads. However, they all hope that when Mariupol becomes Ukrainian, their native hospital will be rebuilt and they will return home.

It is worth noting that Mariupol, which is 95% destroyed, has been under blockade by the Russian occupiers since March 1. There have been no communications in the city for almost three months.

It will be recalled that on February 24, Russia attacked Ukraine , launching a series of missile and air strikes on our cities, including Kyiv. The large-scale invasion has been going on for 96 days (8 years of war). The occupiers continue to destroy Ukrainian villages, towns and cities with cruise missiles and air bombs, killing civilians and destroying infrastructure.