Surgeon falls asleep on operating table after performing six surgeries without taking a break

Photo of a surgeon who fell asleep with his head on the operating table after he performed surgery for 20 hours non-stop has gone viral and the doctor is being hailed a hero. Chinese orthopedic surgeon Luo Shanpeng performed emergency surgeries on 6 patients in a row without taking a break. After the 6th surgery which took 8 hours, the doctor laid his head on the operating table while still holding the arm of the patient he had just reattached and he blacked out.

A nurse took the photo and shared on WeChat, a Chinese messaging platform, and it blew up immediately.
The nurse wrote:
Seeing this makes my heart ache.
 Luo works for the No. 6 People’s Hospital of Guiyang in south-eastern China’s Guizhou Province. He told Guiyang Evening News that he had already performed five operations when a patient was rushed into the hospital at around 6pm on January 3.