Imagine working while standing in a room for three to four hours on a searing summer afternoon with only a fan. Forget beads of sweat, you would get drenched from perspiration.
Doctors at Osmania General Hospital (OGH) are performing surgeries in such sultry conditions in a few operation theatres (OT), only with support of a fan. The sweating becomes profuse when they have to perform long surgeries which last for three or more hours.
They fear that patients are at direct threat since they could catch infection if sweat drips into patients’ body part which is opened for surgery.
