Fire at Kolkata hospital cuts power supply, doctors perform surgery under mobile phone's flashlight
Kolkata: A fire broke out in the state-run Medical College Hospital (MCH) in Kolkata on Tuesday afternoon. Six fire tenders were pressed into service, which doused the blaze within an hour and there were no reports of any injury in the fire incident.
The city on Tuesday witnessed a rerun of ''3 Idiots'' in practical life when doctors at the Kolkata Medical College and Hospital conducted surgeries with the help of their mobile phone torches following a power failure after a fire broke out in the hospital building.
The fire in the server rooms of the hospital also impacted the electrical systems at the College's SSB building on Tuesday afternoon, police said.
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Six fire tenders were pressed into service, which doused the blaze within an hour, he added.
"There were no casualties and an investigation has been started to find out what triggered the blaze," the police officer said.
As per a recent media report in TOI, "Doctors had to use torches for about 10 minutes to carry on with the procedure. Power supply was restored and the surgery was completed successfully. Apart from that, there was no disruption," said MCHK principal Indranil Biswas. The source of the fire was a short circuit in the server room from one of the UPS gadgets.
One of the doctors, who was conducting a kidney surgery when the power supply was disrupted, told PTI on condition of anonymity, "Electricity supply at the OT was snapped ... But as we cannot leave a surgery midway, we continued with ad hoc lighting. It would have been more dangerous for the patient if we had stopped the surgery midway.
"That is the reason I do not want to take any credit."
