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Power has been restored at Christchurch Hospital after a major outage on Friday night left some areas in total darkness.
Power was restored to Christchurch Hospital in the early hours of Saturday after a major outage on Friday night left some areas “in total darkness” before generators finally kicked in.
While power was off, Waitaha Canterbury told people to seek alternative care, unless it was an emergency.
“We will be reviewing why the generators didn’t automatically connect to the hospital’s systems when the power failed,” Waitaha Canterbury said in a statement on Friday night.
It said all 478 patients, including 96 in the Emergency Department, were safe.
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“We appreciate the support of St John, Civil Defence, the 24-Hour Surgery as well as our own staff, including those who came in to work on restoring our systems.”
Waitaha Canterbury earlier said the power cut affected all systems, including power, IT and phones.
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A person at the hospital, who asked not to be named, said at about 10.15pm that all systems seemed to be back to normal.
They said there was emergency lighting on while they waited.
