Panic in Vellore hospital as woman unplugs oxygen port while trying to recharge cellphone
Shanmughasundaram J | TNN | Jan 23, 2018, 21:40 IST
When the woman unplugged the port, oxygen started coming out with a huge sound.
VELLORE: Tension gripped the Government Vellore Medical College Hospital on Tuesday evening after an elderly woman unknowingly unplugged an oxygen port in a women's surgical ward while trying to recharge her cellphone.
When the woman unplugged the port, oxygen started coming out with a huge sound. The inmates and their attendants ran out of the second floor ward. The patients on the ground floor too came out of their respective wards. All of them waited outside the building anxiously. The incident took place around 6.15pm.
Dean of the institution Dr R Shanthi Malar and a team of doctors rushed to the ward and inspected. On inquiry, the patients informed the doctors that an elderly woman, mistaking the port on the oxygen supply line for an electric sachet, removed it in a bid to recharge her cellphone.
"We disconnected the line that was damaged by the elderly woman. We brought the patients back to the wards after an hour, after explaining to them what had happened," said Dr Malar.
Shanmughasundaram J | TNN | Jan 23, 2018, 21:40 IST
When the woman unplugged the port, oxygen started coming out with a huge sound.
VELLORE: Tension gripped the Government Vellore Medical College Hospital on Tuesday evening after an elderly woman unknowingly unplugged an oxygen port in a women's surgical ward while trying to recharge her cellphone.
When the woman unplugged the port, oxygen started coming out with a huge sound. The inmates and their attendants ran out of the second floor ward. The patients on the ground floor too came out of their respective wards. All of them waited outside the building anxiously. The incident took place around 6.15pm.
Dean of the institution Dr R Shanthi Malar and a team of doctors rushed to the ward and inspected. On inquiry, the patients informed the doctors that an elderly woman, mistaking the port on the oxygen supply line for an electric sachet, removed it in a bid to recharge her cellphone.
"We disconnected the line that was damaged by the elderly woman. We brought the patients back to the wards after an hour, after explaining to them what had happened," said Dr Malar.
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