All 12 of Sungai Buloh Hospital’s operating theatres have been shut down following a fire last Friday that short circuited the medical facility’s internal circuitry and caused its air conditioning system to malfunction.
As a result of the shutdown, all elective surgeries scheduled to be carried out at the hospital have been postponed by a month.
The contractors for the RM1.3 billion, 620 bed hospital are Tunas Selatan Sdn Bhd, the same company which built the Universiti Teknologi MARA (UiTM) Teaching Hospital. That hospital also experienced air-conditioning issues when it began accepting students in 2012.
Compounding the problem are the actions of the cleaning contractor Radicare, whose staff inadvertently severed some wires while carrying out maintenance work on the six daycare operating theatres on Wednesday, shutting down all but two remaining daycare OTs.
Hospital director Dr Khalid Ibrahim told FZ.com the issues may take up to two weeks to resolve as UPS batteries were damaged in the fire.
Director-General of Health Datuk Dor Noor Hisham Abdullah has ordered all cases to be freferred to the Kuala Lumpur Hospital. However, due to bureaucratic issues, HKL is rejecting all incoming patients from Sungai Buloh Hospital.
The Sungai Buloh Hospital conducts an average of 50 elective surgeries a day, and emergency operations in the facility number up to 100 a day. It is also the only centre for spine and neurosurgery in Selangor.
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Source: FZ.com
