A woman in Russia has given birth - by the light of cellphones after a power failure plunged the hospital into darkness. While local generators automatically powered up to keep emergency services operational, basic services such as lighting were cut off.
However, in the maternity ward, Rima Pivovarova was having complications in her birth and needed light to help the doctors sort out the problems. Quick thinking nurses borrowed mobile phones from visitors and other medical staff and were able to generate sufficient light by the power of the display screens to help the doctors complete the birth.
Hospital nurse, Nadezhda Stempkovskaya said that both mother and son are doing well. It was not reported if the mother plans to name the baby in honour of the mobile phones in use during the birth.
This is not the first time a medical procedure has been reported to have been carried out by the light of a mobile phone. Last year, there were reports of hospital surgeons in Lahore, Pakistan regularly carrying out medical operations using the light from cellphone screens at times, due to persistent power failures in the national electricity supply.
Posted to the site on 2nd December 2007
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