Water supply restored at Mt Hope hospital

Pub­lic Util­i­ties Min­is­ter Bar­ry Padarath says wa­ter sup­ply at the Er­ic Williams Med­ical Sci­ences Com­plex has re­turned to nor­mal fol­low­ing a re­port­ed in­ter­rup­tion ear­li­er on Sat­ur­day.

Guardian Me­dia was con­tact­ed amid con­cerns that parts of the hos­pi­tal com­plex, in­clud­ing the NICU, an­te­na­tal and post­na­tal wards, the Women’s Hos­pi­tal and the emer­gency de­part­ment, were with­out wa­ter.

One source de­scribed the sit­u­a­tion say­ing, “It’s a dis­as­ter right now.”

How­ev­er, Padarath said the dis­rup­tion had been re­solved and the fa­cil­i­ty’s wa­ter sys­tems were sta­ble.

“Mt. Hope has tanks that have mega stor­age ca­pac­i­ty, I am ad­vised that the tanks are all filled,” he said in a What­sApp mes­sage to Guardian Me­dia.

He added that the in­ter­rup­tion in sup­ply was due to works in the area.

“The sup­ply from WASA was in­ter­rupt­ed due to works in the area. I am ad­vised that the sup­ply to the St. Joseph area has re­turned,” he said.

Padarath said the hos­pi­tal has ad­e­quate back­up wa­ter stor­age and that nor­mal op­er­a­tions have re­sumed.