Patients Treated in Torchlight at Ballia Hospital After Power Outage

Ballia: 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 told PTI Bhasha 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.