Sagaya Fernando Mumbai: 6 November 22 A team of doctors at Apollo Multispecialty hospital in Triuchirappalli, Tamil Nadu, India, saved the life of a 33-years-old man whose neck was pierced through by a feet long iron rod. Karthikeyan, a resident of Ariyamangalam in the city, was watering the concrete slabs on the first floor of his under-construction house when he accidentally slipped and fell 15 to 20 feet down, on October 15. As he fell, a 5 feet long iron rod with serrated edges pierced through his neck and came out from the back. “Within fifteen minutes of the mishap, his relatives rushed him to our hospital which is in close vicinity,” informed Apollo Multispecialty Hospital, Triuchirappalli, Consultant General, Laparoscopic and Bariatric Surgeon Dr Mohamed Mansoor, who led the operating team. “On evaluation in emergency, it was seen that he had a 5 feet long iron rod penetrating into the anterior aspect of neck and exiting ...
Patients have a
lucky escape as ventilator bursts into flames and engulfs hospital ICU ward
Patients
undergoing treatment for coronavirus at the government run Sir Sayajirao
General Hospital in Vadodara, Gujarat, had a narrow escape when a ventilator
burst into flames and engulfed the intensive care unit (ICU) ward on September
8.
In all 272
Covid-19 positive patients were undergoing treatment at the hospital at the
time when the incident occurred.
The incident was
captured on CCTV placed inside the ward.
When smoke started
emanating from the device, the hospital staff started shifting the patients.
Soon, the ventilator burst into flames and fire started spreading in the ward.
The patients were
evacuated by the medical staff in the nick of the time, and were shifted to
GMERS Gotri Hospital.
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