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Power Outage in Russia Forces Doctors to Use Cell Phones for Light

by Terrence O'Brien on November 30, 2007 at 04:25 PM

Cell Phones Illuminate Child Birth
Cellphones are quickly becoming the goto method of illumination for hospitals around the world when power fails. We've reported on an appendectomy in Argentina performed by the light of a mobile handset. Then, in March, Vietnamese doctors delivered a baby via caesarian-section illuminated by cell phones. Now another child has been brought into this world with the help of cell-phone screens.

Dozens of cell phones illuminated the delivery room of a hospital in Shelehov, a town in north Russia. When the town lost power, nurses quickly collected mobile phones from patients and employees to aid in the delivery of Rima Pivovarova's child. Both the mother and child are doing well, and it's all thanks to the cell phones.

From Textually.org

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