Hospital Tours Cancelled - Power Repairs Played A Part

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PGRH had planned to open the doors of its new $14-million dollar Maternal-Child Centre of Excellence to the public this evening, but issues with repairing the hospital's power woes have scrubbed the tours.

Northern Health's Director of Communications, Mark Karjaluoto, says a number of factors came into play today that has forced what, he hopes, will be merely a postponement of the tours.

Efforts to begin returning the hospital to its regular power system after June 7th's mechanical failure began this morning, but much later than expected due to some emergency surgeries that were already underway when crews had hoped to begin some of the switching over. (click here for details on the three-day plan)

Karjaluoto says the delay early this morning pushed the schedule for the repairs out of whack for the rest of the day - they had been timed when it was hoped the hospital would not be busy, but also ended up shifting today's elective surgery schedule to later, as well.  He says, though, he's not aware yet of any surgery cancellations.

Meantime, the staff who were planning to host this evening's tours at 7pm and 8pm have been at the hospital since 2am this morning, so a decision was made to cancel the walk-throughs and let the 'guides' go home for some rest.

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