HEARD ABOUT a candlelight dinner? Now know about candlelight surgeries and the venue has been none other than the prestigious King George’s Medical University.
Yes, this happened on Wednesday in the Orthopaedics operation theatre around 10 am when a six-year-old Rajan was on the operating table.
Half way the surgery, electricity went off. The doctors waited for generators, but as it failed they decided to go on with the operation in candlelight. The operation was successful and this gave the doctors the zeal to do it with more patients.
Operations of Shiv Kumar (50), Abhishek (17) and a minor operation of RK Singh were also done in candlelight only. But, the other four listed operations had to be postponed for they required equipment to run, which was not possible without electricity.
Conditions in other department was same as the electricity supply remained suspended till 1.40 pm. Operation theatres of general surgery, paediatric surgery and the post operation wards all suffered the sudden and undeclared power cut. At several dark corners it were candles that lit the hope for treatment! X-Ray and labs also suffered work loss as patients had to wait for hours.
Electricity problem at KGMU is not a new thing to hear. With over Rs 80 lakh due to LESA against the electricity bills, electricity supply of the administrative wing has been stopped on several occasions. Allocation has been made by the State Government in its supplementary budget to meet such pending dues but things have not improved till now.
{{/usCountry}}Electricity problem at KGMU is not a new thing to hear. With over Rs 80 lakh due to LESA against the electricity bills, electricity supply of the administrative wing has been stopped on several occasions. Allocation has been made by the State Government in its supplementary budget to meet such pending dues but things have not improved till now.
{{/usCountry}}Meanwhile, the revoking of expulsion order against resident doctors of surgery department Dr RK Gupta has raised several questions of the entire exercise of KGMU administration to deal with the recent vandalism.
Not just suspension of students but eve the reshuffling of hostel wardens has come under question. Being an employee of the Gandhi Memorial and Affiliates Hospitals Dr Gupta should first have been served a charge sheet. More so the reshuffling of hostel wardens has some faults.
The change of hostel warden for the resident hostel should be done by the hospital board but this was done directly by the V-C office.
The usual procedure for suspension is in three phases where the proctorial board recommends the names of defaulter students and the dean forwards them. It is only when the dean forwards the names that they can be suspended.