A surgeon has shared a photo from the hospital ward which was crowded as scores of victims from the Paris terrorist attack were rushed in.
A photo from surgeon at a Paris hospital on the night of the attacks shows the moment medics desperately tried to save the victims' lives.
The poignant photograph shows the overcrowded recovery room where medics worked desperately to save victims of the Paris terror attacks .
A team of about 40 doctors, nurses and anesthetists rush around the room at Saint Louis Hospital as the authorities put an emergency plan in place.
The image was posted on Facebook by one of the surgeons, Dr Pourya Pashootan, who made up that team, and has gone viral after being shared thousands of times.
He said that on a regular night the hospital is staffed by a skeleton crew, but as the death toll rose, hundreds of doctors and nurses across the capital rushed in to help.
Dr Pashootan told TIME: “Without thinking about the danger, without hesitation, we all showed up. When I saw that, I found it beautiful. I took the photo and when I got home I felt it’d be a shame not to share it.”
He blurred out some of the recognisable faces and posted it online but says he didn't expect it to go viral, after his friends began sharing it on their own Facebook pages.
The surgeon compared his experience to feeling like "war" and is not the typical scenes they are used to seeing.
He added: “It doesn’t need a caption. There aren’t a lot of photographs like that one. It shows an entire profession mobilized and ready to face the worst of events.”