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tv   Documentary  RT  June 25, 2013 6:29am-7:01am EDT

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i believe clay is the perfect material it's a live. working with the demands precision. you make just a small change and you get a totally different result. was the before getting to work you have to study the material watch it over try to figure out what it looks like then the image comes to you. when i'm operating. the moment i make that first incision. when i touch the tissue i can feel the patient's carry through my hands i can sense the person very well. my life has changed a hundred percent. for four years.
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all i saw a little flare ups blood. and mutilated bodies. i know the same for some that i was before the second chechen war i have an absolutely different outlook now nothing surprises me anymore. from you know my last name was by a of my first names for a son i come from i was from colombia a small village in the czech republic on a plastic surgeon in mentions a fight to as a woman enjoying the war i had to perform surgery in a bowling conditions i had to fight for its life.
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over those two years i operated on four thousand six hundred people but during the second war i literally had no time to keep a record. but i know i did at least twice as many. of the worst thing though is that we badly need more specialist in chechnya because so many people left during the war. in europe now. many people wait and hope that i'll come and operate on them for free. how will she them eleven eleven. but they nominate carter yes says she was crossing the street on the road on the road in what year was that it was ninety ninety five we've waited in waited for you know but we couldn't find you close your eyes. just here and yes that's can be
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removed. able to see it now you won't see it at all you can remove it yeah. you would interest in chechnya today there is so many children and adults of coles who need to be given corrective surgery after the war. in one form.
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i'm afraid to turn on my cell phone and. there's no telling what's going to. have to delete fifty six texts at once now i have another thirty six new ones phones out of memory. the grapevines working word is spreading. says they don't know my husband's sister studied with. she's known him for many years and she knows he's a good man and a good surgeon and so she suggested i turn to him. well you got here ok. what a pretty. of course this is a little complicated. they came from the south.
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i first saw them about six months ago. i told them they were going to have to wait because there wasn't enough to show yet you for your kind now we can operate. because of course when parents interest those tiny fragile bodies into your care which is a huge sense of responsibility. to be given is like geometry numbers and we start by marking out the incision lines as a guide. and then we begin to count to try and restore a normal form initially which it's very intricate work.
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you need very sensitive hands like a surgeon you could say. when you get to work you study the material figure out what it looks like. clay it's like skin. smooth when it's too late for it then it gets older and starts to sweat out salt which then dries it up and then eventually it cracks and it's. the this goes back in two thousand and nine movie very different in the west when i was driving to the stuff or mystical about two hundred kilometers from the city there's a chain. client list all to me. the police officer took one look at my passport and said so how's your home village doing. of what.
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he said he'd been a mercenary and. was a grain silo there he said that big. still there i told him. well he said we will post it on top of it. shooting down in the village when the subrogated we'll talk about it go about doing it and that village. was a crazy doctor. how is it possible he said for him to sit that night and day you mean operating under fire. over when it was over the first ball. and we had no doubt there be a second. when you. had a minivan or you used it as an ambulance. i took out all the seats opened up the
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back and put in mattresses i believe that's how i transported the injured to here. i was the only doctor of five villages go. in gunny and. i thought to myself when i went with this morning. i soon learned that out of ten doctors. i was the only one left along with eight nurses. we had nothing until we get you know hot water no heat no electricity. it's rained down on our heads. windows were blocked up with sandbags there were no windows. and this was the operating theater and the walls were scarred by shrapnel
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but it would have been once a field operating table here. just a very small table. more than i do usually go and get a battery from a car when he was that. what i thought was as long as i had a flashlight and a working battery and i had a good enough environment to work and. we had none of the proper surgical instruments we needed. we performed amputations with a simple metal hand saw. and used a hand drill for craniotomy. and of course every day was horrific in its own way. with the most horrific day of all of course was when i was in a state of shock. that was in two thousand and four thousand people walked across the minefield. one hundred ninety of them were left on the minefield they all died and three hundred people were brought to my hospital. room which was among them
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along with other terrorist leaders. of his right leg he lost a lot of blood his peoples was elated and his blood pressure was fifty over forty. yeah we went to the same school i make no secret of it i've never hidden the fact we played football together we spent ten years at the same school.
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i'm not the almighty i can't predict what the future might hold felt. no dust or anywhere else north or south. it's not my role to judge whether one person is good in another battle what they might do i just don't have that right. they have to deal with their own conscience and i have no regrets i would regret it if i hadn't stayed and done what i did during the wall when i saved lives.
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where. sometimes when i visit my village you know maybe for a funeral. or other times. just to see friends. when i try. to avoid going. near the hospital. or pollution because. you know i think what happened here. no matter how much time passes. it all was. fresh in my memory.
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they all told me my language as well but i will only react to situations i have read the reports so unlike the players know i will leave them to the state department to comment on your latter point of the month to say just to secure a car is on the docket no. job no more weasel words when you have a direct question be prepared for a chase when you have to punch be ready for a bad. freedom of speech and a little bit on the freedom to question. they were ready to do anything for their country to me is to love the country more than yourself if you
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joined the military for any other reason that you're probably not to have a good day they were tools in the hands of the state now they live remembering the past which is impossible to get rid of. the war. but it however good people get hurt. and i have heard good people empty silent. a lot. but would prefer not to be sometimes i feel like. i should have died over there. because i. i saw some people who died and. there is cheaper than therapy. on our. choose your language. make it with. us today still some.
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choose to use the consensus to. choose the opinions that invigorating to. choose the stories that in high school life choose be access to often. look good it was back in two thousand and gerry the fair friend. he went
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out of the house and at that moment a tank shell exploded. like this father died just torn to shreds. and he was badly wounded a miracle he survived you know what your movie had shrapnel injuries in his hands had to amputate two fingers. he also had shrapnel wounds all over his back. he was only twelve years old back then he has trouble speaking. ever since. god willing. i hope the day never happens again. it's because of how. he saved my life. much. surprised.
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people just went home. with relatives helping. they went home as if they'd just been to the dentist i realized that man has unlimited potential. human conditions i could have saved. and they were so confident that i could help but of course. i was never able to say . i can't help you in these conditions. i have no right to say that. before surgery. really well. the defects was very challenging.
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but nevertheless an extremely good result. more than you might have noticed. that she looks completely different now. every successful operation leaves here with a great sense of satisfaction. at the same time he can believe me operating on children is a very very tough job. the body is so fragile. the anatomy is totally different. thank god in this case there was enough to shoot to rebuild the lip and those.
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are all and then of course that'll go down it will get better. you see the left side of the moz was badly deformed now it's totally different the lips different too you can see how after the operation the child has changed for the worse so happy with the outcome we're very grateful to him we did right to come here even though we had been afraid we'd heard of her son's golden hands and now we know that it's true. yeah you just finished with. i'm tired of it you. are the best in the next life. the rest in this one.
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soon she's too good to be my you do it i started doing judo and sambo in one nine hundred seventy six i'm sure contributes a good way to restore energy it also helps with concentration during surgery some of my younger colleagues often wonder how can i stand still for seven or eight hours staring at one point while i operate. strategy on the mat. if your nervous system is weak you burn out and lose but if you're strong you'll win. sometimes you get to the final and you're sure you're going to win. only a few seconds left but your opponent has nothing to lose and really goes for it lost out a few times to a painful throw or a choke hold. on one fine day about five hundred men arrived at four in the morning
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and surrounded the village and hear that it was there it was one hundred percent certain that the slaughter. he was well aware that a.p.c. is brought into russian soldiers here every day. grabs me drags me down the corridor also the no one could see but everyone did. they find a gun i mean above my head and then my feet to scare me. and then they held a shari'a hearing. they said i'd sold out to the russians. they were about to shoot me. this is it. but suddenly the wooden gate
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opened and in. school they opened up the back and started pulling out injured guerrillas in camouflage gear shouting ways the doctor the doctor well my execution was postponed i had to attend to them if they come in minutes even seconds later i would have already been dead. when i watched this occur it doesn't feel like me at all. it's someone totally different someone i don't know. now i often think how could i have survived all that. we get over to.
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live with the eyes reveal a person's character. his eyebrows dipped down and he looks really tired shit because if he's reminiscing about the past to explain and he's looking at you but at the same time he's somewhere else. you thought it was a matter of a few international organizations heard about my shaman rights watch amnesty international physicians for human rights and. they found me and. there was one
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doctor with them who said. i can see all the horrors of war in your face. yeah and they took me to america where i was in rehabilitation for six months. i was in a terrible psychological state. i felt as i was about to explode i started getting gastrointestinal bleeding. it was a big fire i had problems. then i had total amnesia the whole bunch of health problems came out. it took four years in the u.s. just to repair my health. and i really missed my work i missed it so much there were times when every night i dreamed of
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performing surgery and of course i knew perfectly well that someday i'd be back at my place on the operating table. and now i am. i used to go to church three or four months time but now since becoming an american citizen opportunity to spend time there last year i spent eleven months in chechnya . this is how i've lived for these last years and. i really mean this. whenever i leave. my conscience torments me. for this idea i want to mission.
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i want to bring a medical team to chechnya to work here he. brought teams from boston before twice. when. we operated on two hundred twenty children in just those two to chechnya. yes i'm a home. wow . since. you. i don't know how it is for surgeons but for me the important thing is to get the
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shape right. i know i have plenty of material to help me start over but you have to get it right on the first attempt. actually i can really see myself in really got the shape of my years i've always said you've got cauliflower ears it's. the sun has seen what we've all seen here but like an artist he has taken it all to heart. and chechens don't like to complain and. to say they feel bad or that life is hot. we consider it shameful even a disgrace when people grumble. we don't show our emotions. we keep it all inside.
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