A rare surgical operation was performed on a woman patient at the Kandy General Hospital, with the aid of light from mobile phones, when the operating theatre was plunged into darkness and the back-up generator at the hospital functioned only for around ten minutes.
This is said to be the first such surgical operation at the hospital since its establishment.
Dr.M.M.Niyaz was performing a surgical operation on a woman patient when the electricity supply failed and the back-up lights lasted only ten minutes.
Dr.Niyaz and his assistant had no alternative but to switch on their mobile phones and continue the operation with the aid of light from them. The surgery was successful and everyone around the patient breathed a sigh of relief when the operation was over.
The strange part of this episode was that the operating theatre had no battery torches in the event of an emergency of this nature.
Other patients waiting to be operated decided to wait for the electricity supply to be resumed.
One of them who decided to wait his turn until the electricity supply to the operating theatre was restored, was Nimal Rajapakse, working in the office of the Bishop of Kurunegala.
The power supply was restored around one and half hours later. |
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