Pipe bursts in GPHC’s state-of-the-art facility

Oct 11, 2012 News

…floods the ward

Several patients had to be evacuated from the new in-patient wing of Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) after water suddenly started pouring down from the ceiling.

A portion of the flooded ward

The new wing was commissioned last November and was hailed as a state-of-the-art facility.
The water started running down the walls of the Male Surgical Ward around 08:15am yesterday, for kept doing so for some 90 minutes.
There are reports that the main pipeline in the ceiling of the $1.6 billion in-patient facility broke under mysterious circumstances and caused several rooms to be drenched.
Patients in the Eye Ward were seen at the bottom flat of the building, while at least two patients were temporarily relocated.
As water continued pouring into the ward, various parts of the ceiling “came tumbling down”, a patient said.
When Kaieteur News visited the ward yesterday, the cleaners were mopping the wet floor.
Construction workers were also seen carting awaiting the debris from the ward. This happened a day after doctors and nurses at the Accident and Emergency Unit at the hospital refused to continue their work because of the ongoing construction work to extend the A&E Unit.
GPHC, in a press release, said that an internal ceiling pipeline burst at the Male Surgical Ward yesterday morning which resulted in flooding at some areas.