Surgery By Cell Phone Lights
Cell phones have always been life savers, but this time, cell phones have practically saved a 29-year-old Brazilian man’s life not through a call or a text message, but through the light emanating from its screens.
The light from the cell phone screens allowed surgeons to complete an emergency appendix operation during a blackout in a city in central Argentina, reports said on Saturday.
Leonardo Molina, 29, was on the operating table on July 21, when the power went out in the Policlinico Juan D. Peron, the main hospital in Villa Mercedes, a small city in San Luis province.
“The generator, which should have been working correctly, didn’t work,” a hospital spokesman, whose name was not given, told TN television news station.
“The surgeons and anesthetists were in the dark… A family member got some cell phones together from people in the hallway and took them in to provide light,” he said.
Needless to say, the surgery was finished, and Molina gets to live.
I’ll never get annoyed with overly bright cell phone lights ever again.
