Hospital power outage during surgery, but safe success with cell phone lights

In the Argentine hospital it seems that the generator has stopped working during surgery, blackouts occurred and it became dark. But by using the cell phone lights, the surgery was successfully successful.

If you think that this situation will occur when you are under surgery, it seems to be a very terrible story.

Details are as follows.
Cell phones light up operating room during blackout | U. S. | Reuters

According to this article, when 29-year-old Leonardo Molina was operated on the hospital on July 21, the surgeon and the anesthesiologist suddenly stalled in the dark suddenly due to a power failure in the generator is. And Leonardo Molina's relatives succeeded in surgery using the lights of several mobile phones borrowed from people in the hallway.

The hospital spokesperson said that the hospital's lighting did not come on for 20 minutes due to a blackout, but according to Ricardo Molina, brother of Mr. Leonardo Molina, in fact the power outage has been 1 hour indeed, and anesthesia It is said that it was about to expire. Although it seems that only the emergency itself was avoided, it is tremendously terrible.

By the way, according to the following link, there seems to be similar case in Vietnam. It was said that a blackout occurred during the Caesarean section, which was exactly the big thing concerning life, but it seems that we could finish surgery successfully by using the lights of the eight mobile phones.

[Vietnam News] Blackout during caesarean section, surgery continued with cell phone light