Ballia (UP), July 27 -- After a video of patients being treated in torchlight at the emergency room of the district hospital here went viral, health department officials on Sunday said the situation arose due to a combination of power outage in the area and a technical glitch in the hospital's generator.
Chief Medical Superintendent of Ballia district hospital Dr S K Yadav said that power supply in the area was disrupted on Friday evening. The generator that supplies power to the emergency medical building also had a technical problem, resulting in an outage that lasted 45 minutes.
Yadav said that someone might have made a video of the situation and posted it online, which went viral
on Saturday.
After the issue came to light, a sufficient number of inverters were installed in the emergency medical room and the system has been made efficient, he added.
Published by HT Digital Content Services with permission from Millennium Post.