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Light Cut Forced to Finish Surgeries with Cell Lighting

A blackout left Esquel's Zonal Hospital powerless during an emergency intervention. Emergency teams did not respond immediately and doctors reported that this was a problem that had already occurred before. Esquel's hospital entrance: a power cut forced two surgeries to end with cell lighting was first published in #BorderPeriodism.
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The episode occurred at the Esquel Zonal Hospital, where two surgeries were performed simultaneously when a power cut forced to end with cell lights, because the backup systems were also out of operation, put under the magnifying glass the conditions in which surgical interventions were performed in the public hospitals of Chubut. From this situation, the Association of Surgeons of Comodoro Rivadavia and the Association of Surgeons of the Valley…

Surgeons from the Esquel area hospital had to finish two surgical procedures using only the light from their cell phones because the nosocomial electrical emergency team failed when there was a widespread cut in this city of the Chubut mountain range. “The scenario was critical,” said the professionals who anticipated making a complaint to...

A blackout left Esquel's Zonal Hospital powerless during an emergency intervention. Emergency teams did not respond immediately and doctors reported that this was a problem that had already occurred before. Esquel's hospital entrance: a power cut forced two surgeries to end with cell lighting was first published in #BorderPeriodism.

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#BorderPeriodismo broke the news on Tuesday, July 28, 2026.
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