GUNTUR, India: A shocking footage has surfaced of a medical operation from a hospital in India, showing doctors performing an emergency surgery with the help of a mobile phone torchlight at a government-run hospital.
What prompted doctors to resort to this extremely unusual act is reported as the electricity disconnection.
The surgery was performed on February 7. Report says that the power supply had apparently tripped when the doctors were in the middle of the surgery on a woman.
he hospital’s administration took a long time to restore the supply from a standby generator, raising questions over the functioning of the General Hospital in Guntur.
The surgeons faced a similar predicament on February 14 while performing another surgery. But it did not affect the patients and their surgeries went successful, according to the report.
It is reported that the plastic surgeons were performing a reconstructive surgery on an accident victim (a woman) on February 7 when the power supply tripped. The doctors had to depend on the cellphone torchlight to complete the procedure.
The report further says that the doctors leaked both the videos of the surgeries to the media, putting the hospital administration in in hot water. They said that though the surgeries were not major in nature, they cannot take chances putting the lives of the patients at grave risk.
