MGM docs work with phones during outage

Jamshedpur: Government-run Mahatma Gandhi Memorial Medical College and Hospital (MGMMCH) suffered power cuts twice, each time for a period of two hours, in a span of 12 hours since Sunday night.

While the first outage on Sunday night was due to a glitch in the power circuit, the power cut on Monday morning was the result of a short circuit.

Further, due to a damage in the cable system, the hospital couldn't use the power generator.

“Sometime after I arrived at 10 am, power went off. With no power backup, patients and their attendants had to suffer amid the scorching heat,” said OPD patient Md Imtiaz.

Attendant of a patient, Anita Devi, said there was no electricity in the medicine ward. The outage compelled the doctors at the OPD to switch on their mobile phone torches to work.

The OPD block, the administrative building and the central registration block were affected due to the outages, hospital officials said.

Deputy superintendent Dr Nakul Chaudhary said work at the operation theatre was suspended temporarily due to the blackout but there was no major fallout.

The official denied that the burn unit suffered any power cut. “Burn unit building has a separate power phase, and, that was working fine,” he said.

Tata Steel Utility Services and Infrastructure Ltd has restored power, he said, adding the hospital will take steps so that there is no recurrence of such incident.