Every hour is getting harder': Surgeons struggle to operate when the power goes out.
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KYIV, Ukraine  The surgeons had made the long incision down the middle of the child's chest, cut the breastbone to spread the rib cage and reach the heart when the lights went out at the Heart Institute in Kyiv.Generators kicked on to keep life-support equipment running on Wednesday night as nurses and surgical assistants held flashlights over the operating table, guiding the surgeons as they snipped and cut, working to save a life under the most trying of conditions.
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