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2007-07-31
Cellphones light up operating room during blackout

Buenos Aires, Brazil

The light from the cellphone screens allowed surgeons to complete an emergency appendix operation we think during a blackout in a city in central Argentina, reports said on Saturday.

Leonardo Molina (29) was on the operating table on July 21, (a day he will not soon forget) when the power went out in the Policlinico Juan D Peron, the main hospital in Villa Mercedes, a small city in San Luis province, with intermittant electricity

"The generator, which should have been working correctly, didn't work," a hospital spokesperson, whose name was not given, told TN television news station.

"The surgeons and anesthetists were in the dark and were looking for candles when... a family member got some cellphones together from people in the hallway and took them in to provide light," he said.

Ricardo Molina (39) Leonardo's brother, told La Nación newspaper that the lights were out for an hour and his brother's anesthesia was wearing off. - Reuters
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