US EditionSurgeries cancelled at one of Quebec’s largest hospitals after violent storm
- Maisonneuve-Rosemont hospital in Montreal cancelled 30 surgeries on Wednesday due to a power outage caused by violent storms the night before.
- The outage happened amid strong wind gusts over 100 km/h that knocked out trees and equipment, leaving more than 38,000 Hydro-Québec clients without power.
- Environment Canada had warned on Tuesday about thunderstorms with large hail, heavy rain, and strong winds across Quebec, resulting in damage including shattered hospital windows.
- Health Minister Christian Dubé acknowledged infrastructure issues revealed by the storm and promised to start much-needed upgrade work at the hospital in the coming weeks, saying, "Everything is currently being done to restore the situation."
- Officials confirmed that electricity was restored to operating rooms, which were allowed to reopen, and by mid-afternoon ambulance diversions to other centres ceased, indicating a gradual return to normal hospital services.
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Prince George Citizen
Surgeries cancelled at one of Quebec's largest hospitals after violent storm
MONTREAL — One of Quebec's largest hospitals cancelled surgeries on Wednesday after it lost power the night before during one of a series of violent storms that swept through the province.
Surgeries cancelled at one of Quebec’s largest hospitals after violent storm
A series of violent storms that swept through Quebec on Tuesday knocked out power to more than 144,000 clients, including one of the largest hospitals in the province, and badly injured a teenager in Montreal.
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One of Quebec’s largest hospitals cancelled surgeries on Wednesday after it lost power the night before during one of a series of violent storms that swept through the province. Officials at Montreal’s Maisonneuve-Rosemont hospital — its rapidly aging infrastructure in serious need of major renovations — were forced to cancel 30 surgeries and transfer one surgery patient to another city hospital for urgent care, said Thaïs Dubé, a spokeswoman fo…
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