THERE’S an App for that...
Egyptian surgeons have
successfully completed an
operation by the light from their
mobile phones, after a sudden
power cut at their hospital in the
southern city of Qina.
They were taking out gallstones
from a 60-year-old patient when
the lights suddenly went out,
and so they apparently whipped
out their phones and used a
‘flashlight’ App for illumination.
Power cuts have become more
frequent in recent months,
with claims that the Egyptian
government doesn’t have the
money to buy fuel to keep the
country’s power stations going.
Local officials have ordered an
inquiry into why the hospital’s
back-up generator did not kick in.
The al-Masry al-Youm
newspaper says it was extremely
lucky that the doctors’ phones
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