Under Cellphone Light, Sweeper Stitches Patient’s Head Wound In Odisha’s Bhadrak: Report

Chandbali: Using the flashlight of a mobile phone, a sweeper attended to a patient who had sustained injuries on his head and required stitches at the Chandbali Community Health Centre (CHC) in Odisha’s Bhadrak district, according to reports.

The patient Ramesh Majhi, a peshkar at Chandbali court, was injured after being hit by a beam during shifting of office articles in a vehicle from the old campus to a new building on Saturday, it was reported.

At the CHC in Chandbali, Subash Das, the sweeper of the health centre, attended to the patient in the absence of the doctor and nurse, according to the reports. Under a mobile phone’s flashlight and with the help of another person, he managed to stitch the patient’s wound.

Later, Majhi was shifted to the SCB Medical College & Hospital in Cuttack.

“I already treated the patient. The sweeper is engaged for stitches due to lack of staff at the hospital,” Dr Soumya Ranjan Swain was quoted by the Sambad as saying.