GPHC patients asked to be patient as power disruption is addressed

SEVERAL sections of the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) were thrown into darkness on Thursday when a power outage triggered an electrical breaker at the hospital and caused it to trip.

Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the GPHC, Brigadier (Ret’d) George Lewis, told the media, in an invited comment, that the situation was under control.
“We have spoken to the patients. We have advised them of the situation and we have asked them to be patient with us”. Lewis said, in light of many areas of the hospital being out of light.

He said that, as a precautionary measure, a unit of the Guyana Fire Service (GFS) and GPL were summoned.

“As a precautionary measure, we did call in the fire service to ensure that safety is maintained. We also called in GPL so that they can provide support to our internal electricians who are seeking to rectify the problem”. The CEO said.
Lewis explained to the media that the hospital experienced a GPL power outage which caused one of the breakers within the main control room of the hospital electrical network to fail.

He said the hospital was unable to utilize its standby generator to power the AC/DC building but was however able to maintain electricity in the theater because of the UPS systems that operate in that area.

The hospital CEO said that alternative arrangement for important services such as CT scans, x-rays, ultrasound and so on were made for same to be done at the Cancer Institute of Guyana (CIG).

“So patients who need to receive those services, will still receive them”. He said.
The hospital CEO said that the situation is not a planned activity, “these kind of things happen, you don’t ever know when it is going to happen but some things do happen in an unplanned manner”. He said.

When this publication arrived at the hospital, officials and a team of technical workers were on the ground attending to the situation.

It is not clear how long the situation will take to be rectified but workers are working against the clock to bring the situation back to normalcy.

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