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Bihar hospital patients treated under mobile torch after power cut
Patients at Sasaram's Sadar Hospital in Rohtas district, Bihar, were treated under mobile phone torchlight after a sudden power outage in the emergency ward. Videos of the incident went viral on social…
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Patients at Sasaram's Sadar Hospital in Rohtas district, Bihar, were treated under mobile phone torchlight after a sudden power outage in the emergency ward. Videos of the incident went viral on social media, prompting an inquiry by local authorities.
District Magistrate Deepak Kumar Mishra said the outage lasted roughly two minutes and was caused by a tripped Miniature Circuit Breaker. The hospital has a separate transformer and backup generators, but they failed to prevent the darkness. A team has been formed to investigate whether emergency power systems worked as intended.
The Indian Opinion
Critics will blame chronic neglect of government hospitals, but the outage was only two minutes from an MCB fault. That still means backup power failed to kick in when it mattered. The district magistrate has ordered an inquiry. The real test is not a blame game but a simple answer: when did the hospital last test its generator and UPS under load? If the report glosses over that, the pattern will repeat.
Source: indiatoday.in
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