Nurses are lifesavers, and don’t have enough of them
At 7. 05am on March 19, nurse Saravanan (name changed), posted at the intensive care unit of the Chengalpet Medical College and Hospital, had to decide if he must put a criticallyill 67-year-old renal failure patient on a ventilator or resuscitate a 32-year-old snakebite victim suffering cardiac arrest. His colleague, the only other male nurse in the ward, was resuscitating another patient. Making every second count, Saravanan asked one of the ward boys — not adequately trained in nurs patient — to manually pump in oxygen for the elderly patient and took over the treatment of the snakebite victim.
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At 7. 05am on March 19, nurse Saravanan (name changed), posted at the intensive care unit of the Chengalpet Medical College and Hospital, had to decide if he must put a criticallyill 67-year-old renal failure patient on a ventilator or resuscitate a 32-year-old snakebite victim suffering cardiac arrest. His colleague, the only other male nurse in the ward, was resuscitating another patient. Making every second count, Saravanan asked one of the ward boys — not adequately trained in nurs patient — to manually pump in oxygen for the elderly patient and took over the treatment of the snakebite victim. 
