Power Failure At Andhra Hospital Forces Doctor To Do Surgery Under Mobile Torchlight

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We know we have said this earlier but something worse than the last time keeps happening and we’re forced to repeat- Healthcare is one of the major causes of upheaval in India. As dismaying as it sounds, nothing has changed since the unfathomable Gorakhpur tragedy where we lost over 63 people (including infants).

Or the Max hospital debacle that wrongfully declared a new-born dead, and handed the baby with its dead twin in a plastic bag. Beleive it or not, medicine and its practice are more precious than noble because of the multiple cases of medical negligences that have come to the fore.

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And, unfortunately, today is one of those days.

A new video has surfaced from the OT of a Guntur Government Hospital in Andhra Pradesh and has caused a stir. Why? Because it has doctors operating under a mobile torch! 

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According to Mumbai Mirror, doctors at Guntur General Hospital (GGH) continued a surgery of a woman undergoing a nose reconstruction surgery with the help of a mobile phone torchlight, as the power went off suddenly in the theatre.

The incident happened on February 10 but came to light only after the video leaked and went viral.

Reportedly, after a power failure, the backup generators were turned on but the MCB tripped leading to the disruption. Hospital superintendent Dr Devanaboina Shouri Raju Naidu told Mirror, 

“This happened on second Saturday, which was a lean day. Electrical repair works were going on. This particular theatre had two operation beds.

Suddenly, there was an MCB (Miniature Circuit Breaker) tripping resulting in disruption to the power supply for four minutes to one bed, where a plastic surgery was going on for facial corrections.”

It was then that the operating doctor, Smitha Shankar turned to the mobile torchlight and continued the operation.

Watch the entire video here. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hTfvBqKxYFA

Needless to say, the grave laxity has rightly angered a lot of people who have taken to roads to protest. But the questions remains, how long before this stops? How long before human life is treated like one? How long?

However, kudos to the doctors for continuing with their duties even under the low light of the mobile torch. We salute them.

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