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posted by martyb on Friday January 31 2020, @08:26PM   Printer-friendly
from the Paging-Dr-Grey dept.

Murphy's law has it that bad things will happen at the worst possible time. What could be worse than losing power at a hospital with patients on the tables? One Australian hospital now knows the answer after power was cut to the hospital leaving doctors to complete a surgery using a mobile phone for light. Medical staff had completed the minor surgery and were starting to put stitches in when the lights went out, just before 2:00pm. It goes to show what ingenuity can bring when a need calls for it.


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 31 2020, @11:31PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 31 2020, @11:31PM (#952050)

    So you are saying they were negligent in maintaining the generator and are using this to distract people from the fact people in ICU almost died, and likely have brain damage?

  • (Score: 2) by barbara hudson on Friday January 31 2020, @11:44PM

    by barbara hudson (6443) <barbara.Jane.hudson@icloud.com> on Friday January 31 2020, @11:44PM (#952059) Journal
    Nobody almost died. Nobody was at risk of brain damage. The whole area has a history of problems with high variable voltage, and this probably caused a delay in the generator kicking in because you have to set it for a higher variance of line power before it cuts in. Don't want it kicking in multiple times a day because of a 5 second power outage.
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