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It was 30th January 2021. Like any other day, Ms. Harawati was headed home after completing her night shift at Cloud Nine. She was in an ambulance with (her friend) Shelar when they were suddenly stopped by an unruly crowd. What they saw next is indescribable - a mother and her new-born were lying on the road in a fragile and helpless condition. The baby was still attached to the placenta and had not cried its first breathe yet while the mother was in a state of semi-conscious. With hundreds of people surrounding the duo, none had come forward to help.
Had Harawati been confronted with such a situation at the hospital, it would have been natural for her to help. Without thinking twice, Ms. Harawati rose to the occasion and volunteered for help. She picked up the baby, who was unresponsive and lying limp. Mustering all her courage and recollecting all that she had learnt during her clinical posting in the OT department at Cloud Nine, she took out the secretions from the baby’s mouth to save it from getting chocked. When the baby still did not respond, she stimulated and gave the baby left lateral position. Eventually the baby cried and Harawati released a sigh of relief and joy.
She also brought the mother inside the ambulance with the help of few locals and kept talking to her to ensure that she does not slip into unconsciousness. Later, she along with Shelar, left them under the care of a government hospital as per their request.
Mr. JEYA KUMAR, 34 Years old male Nurse, working for Kasturba Gandhi Govt Hospital for women and children, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, performed an extraordinary act of saving lives. His prediction and proactive approach are commendable.
It was May 26th, 8.30 pm, when a fire had broken out from the AC in the duty doctor's room, adjacent to the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU), where there were more than 40 neonates, including three of them on a ventilator. Jeya Kumar had just finished his duty as a scrub nurse and was documenting outside the theatre when he started hearing people scream but could barely see anything as there was a thick black smog. Jeya Kumar's worry was about the babies in NICU, their safety, and the gas manifold area on the ground floor below NICU.
He acted immediately as he was trained for fire emergencies. He broke open a window panel, spotted the fire in the room, and ran the entire operation of extinguishing the fire solely before the external fire team could arrive. Jeya Kumar used 12 fire extinguishers to put out the fire, which took 30 minutes. Once he put off the fire, the Neonatal ICU nurses, doctors, HK staff, and other hospital staff could enter the NICU and evacuate the babies and mothers, all 58 of them were safe.
Jeya Kumar fell unconscious as he inhaled a lot of smoke, injuring his asthmatic lung. He recovered after being hospitalized in ICU for five days.
The Association of Nurse Executives (India) is proud of Mr. Jeya Kumar, his brave act of saving 58 of them from fire disasters.
We wish him all good virtues in his future endeavors.
Please put your hands together for thunderous applause for sheer presence of mind :
What looked like an ordinary day for six-month-old Staff Nurse Mr.Bhuvaneshwaran working at Apollo Main Hospital Chennai in the Heart and Lung unit turned out to be a day that he will never forget ...it was a day of saving five lives, including his own...Red alert had been sounded by the TN government for the incessant rains and Bhuvaneshwaran was literally hurrying to reach home at the earliest , for which he boarded the hospital bus which would take him to Central Station , from where he would take a train home ..but about 10 minutes into the bus ride , somewhere near Aykar Bhavan , he realized that while nearing a signal , the bus was going zig zag ...when he checked on the driver , he saw that the driver was almost falling off to one side of the seat , immediately Bhuvaneshwaran realized that the driver was having a seizure, so he immediately took control of the wheel , put his leg on the clutch and put off the engine , which brought the bus to a stand still...the driver was then pulled out of the seat and his airway managed by Bhuvaneshwaran and in the meanwhile the others were asked to call for our ambulance ....after which the driver was transfered to Main Hospital and further treated ....sometimes we know it all , but to act there is a block...but here a fresher literally , knew how to diagnose and administer first aid and do the needful...his presence of mind saved the day for all of them ....an act of courage and bravery beyond words...and from us to Bhuvaneshwaran a heart ❤ full of gratitude and thanks for saving lives in and out of the hospital ....💕
