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Catharina Hospital Has Resolved the Power Outage; Operations Are Resuming.

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Shortly after 4 p.m. on Tuesday afternoon, the power outage at the Catharina Hospital in Eindhoven was resolved. A faulty battery in a network switch turned out to be the cause of the outage. From that moment on, care could resume as normal, and surgeries could also take place again. The power outage occurred following a monthly test of the hospital's emergency network. That exercise went well until the hospital attempted to switch back to the r…
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Omroep BrabantOmroep Brabant

Power Outage at Catharina Continues, Ambulances Avoid Hospital

There is a very high chance that people requiring acute surgery on Tuesday, for example following an accident, will not be transported by ambulance to the Catharina Hospital in Eindhoven. This is according to Nardo van der Meer, Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Eindhoven hospital, now that his hospital has been dealing with a power outage for hours. "Not performing acute surgeries is part of the safety protocol when power supply problem…

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Omroep Brabant broke the news in on Tuesday, April 14, 2026.
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