No Power
Categories : Obstetrics |
As a political issue, much has been made of the problems with the electricity supply in this state. I’ve never really been too concerned by it until last night. Power was out to most of our city for 8 or 9 hours, including the surgery where I worked and the hospital. This meant that we were unable to use the operating theatre, and if we needed to do a Caesarean section we would have had to drive the patient in an ambulance to the next hospital 25km up the road. Given that the CTG (foetal heart beat) trace was looking quite dodgy at times, this was a real concern. But I held my nerve and in the end delivered a healthy baby, and breathed a huge sigh of relief. It is pretty terrible when the safety of patients in hospital is compromised by the poor excuse for a power system we have here.
