by Playfuls Staff |
22nd March 2007
Doctors in a Vietnamese hospital used light from their mobile phones to finish a surgery to deliver a baby after a power failure in the operating room, a doctor said [more] Thursday.
The surgeons were at a crucial point in a caesarian-section operation on a mother, when the lights went out in the operating room in Pleiku General Hospital in remote Gia Lai province, 550 kilometres north of Ho Chi Minh City.
The backup generator also failed, according to Dr Nguyen Tu Tin, chief surgeon of the operation.
"We had to continue the operation right away but the operation room was pitch dark," Tin said.
So the surgeons quickly gathered up eight mobile phones of all doctors and nurses in the room and used their display lights to continue the operation, conducted last week.
"Though not very bright, the light from the cell phones was good enough for us to remove the baby from his mother before our backup generator brought the light on again," Tin said.
Both the mother and baby boy are in good conditions and will be released from the hospital shortly.
© 2007 DPA
