Water Crisis at City Hospital
Posted on: Tuesday, 27 September 2005, 09:00 CDT
By Paul Maunder and Greg Tindle
PATIENTS at a city hospital have been left without water over the weekend. More than 100 elderly patients at Cardiff Royal Infirmary have been left with no running water for hours at a time.
Engineers were today battling to solve the problem with the hospitals water system.
Cardiff Central AM Jenny Randerson said she found the situation at the hospital extraordinary. CITY HOSPITAL TAPS RUN DRY AM hits out at unacceptable situation PATIENTS at a city hospital were left without water for long periods at the weekend. Engineers were today battling to solve the problem at Cardiff Royal Infirmary which has left many of the elderly patients without water.
Staff at the West Wing the only surviving in-patient part of the hospital and patients relatives today told of their disgust at the conditions.
The wing treats around 120 patients who have suffered strokes and need rehabilitation treatment.
A nurse claimed: We have been running back and forth from the kitchen with their bowls all day.
This is absolutely no way to run a hospital.
Margaret Rossel, the NHS site manager in charge of the West Wing, said at the time: This has been brought to my attention and I understand plumbers have been on the site to sort things out.
Cardiff Central AM Jenny Randerson, in whose constituency the hospital is situated, said: This is horrendous and quite unacceptable, especially in a hospital where the vast majority of patients are elderly.
Its an obvious health risk. People are already concerned about MRSA in hospitals.
Without all the information it is too early to speculate about the cause of this difficulty. But I find it extraordinary that if there is a problem with the water supply, emergency measures have not been taken to bring in tankers.
I shall be taking this up with the Cardiff and Vale NHS Trust as a matter of urgency. It is vital that patients and those visiting them should have total confidence in the hygiene conditions at the hospital.
Rhiannon Matthews, the spokeswoman for the Cardiff and Vale NHS Trust said: Our engineers are currently working to try to resolve the problems.
Source: South Wales Echo
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