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RAD­HI­CA DE SIL­VA

Crews from the Trinidad and To­ba­go Elec­tric­i­ty Com­mis­sion (T&TEC) worked along­side tech­ni­cal staff at the South West Re­gion­al Health Au­thor­i­ty (SWRHA) on Sun­day to re­store elec­tric­i­ty to sec­tions of the new wing of the San Fer­nan­do Gen­er­al Hos­pi­tal, near the Ac­ci­dent and Emer­gency (A&E) de­part­ment, af­ter an elec­tri­cal break­er failed, plung­ing parts of the fa­cil­i­ty in­to dark­ness.

Hos­pi­tal sources de­scribed the in­ci­dent as “a black Sun­day in the A&E De­part­ment,” claim­ing that non-clin­i­cal ar­eas were left with­out pow­er and al­leg­ing that back­up gen­er­a­tors were not func­tion­ing. Some sources al­so re­port­ed that el­e­va­tors were out of ser­vice, forc­ing pa­tients to be trans­port­ed via South West am­bu­lances, with cer­tain ser­vices be­ing car­ried out man­u­al­ly.