Argentina: Cell phone glow saves patient’s life

Sometimes we are incredibly resourceful when faced with life or death decisions. This was the case several days ago in Argentina.

When the lights went out during a blackout in the middle of a vital operation, the family member of a patient under the knife for a critical appendix operation grabbed several cell phones and used them as an emergency light source. "The generator, which should have been working correctly, didn't work," said the spokesman for the hospital in Villa Mercedes though the bright screens from the cell phones were adequate for surgeons to use during the 60 minute blackout.

Believe it or not this is not the first time that such resourcefulness has been applied; several months ago, the glow from cell phones were used in a darkened Vietnamese clinic while a mother was giving birth.

Sources- New Zealand Herald, Sydney Morning Herald, Switched

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