An unusual event at the Ichilov Hospital in Tel Aviv: A power outage that lasted close to half an hour “caught” the hospital in an embarrassing situation when the generators in the medical institution were not enough and for many minutes the place remained at a complete standstill. Visitors to the hospital said that they had to go down the stairs without lighting when even the emergency lighting did not work. “It was especially dangerous and stressful when it comes to older people,” they said.Except that the big problem was revealed in the delivery room and well in professional units. “In the gastro, the anesthesiologist worked in the dark without light and without a monitor. Manual CPR was performed because there was no electricity. In the delivery room, they performed half CPR on the baby with the flashlights of the staff’s mobile phones on the spot. In the operating rooms, they stopped admitting patients. It was dark here for many minutes after the generators finished their work Theirs,” say officials at the Ichilov Hospital in a conversation with Maariv.
Visitors to the hospital said that “the electricity disappeared and came back until it stopped completely and not for a short time. It is amazing to discover that in the hospital when there are people who are connected to oxygen machines and systems that are powered by electricity such as monitors, there is no protection system like significant generators. Here the generator stopped working after about 20 minutes, maybe a little More, but for about ten minutes there was no electricity, which is a lot in cases of saving lives.”
The hospital stated in response that “this morning, due to a technical malfunction originating from computer systems, there were short power outages in some of the hospital’s departments. The backup systems immediately went to work. The operation of the hospital was not affected, nor did any critical system cease to operate. The malfunctions were quickly dealt with and the electricity returned to normal operation “.
