Health board working to restore power at hospital following outage

NHS Lanarkshire was made aware of a power cut at University Hospital Hairmyres on Monday.

NHS Lanarkshire working to restore power to University Hospital Hairmyres following outageNHS Lanarkshire

A health board has said it is working to restore power to a hospital in East Kilbride which has been hit by a power outage.

University Hospital Hairmyres was impacted by a power cut on Monday.

NHS Lanarkshire said it was aware of the incident and work was ongoing to rectify the situation.

In a post on Facebook, NHS Lanarkshire added that updates will be made as soon as possible.

Louise Long, Chief Executive of NHS Lanarkshire, said: “Main power was restored to University Hospital Hairmyres earlier today. We have continued to provide emergency care at the hospital throughout the day.

“We would like to apologise to all patients whose planned procedures and appointments are being disrupted today and tomorrow. All affected patients are being contacted and postponed care will be rescheduled as soon as possible.

“Additional work is continuing to improve the resilience of the power supply to allow all services to return to normal at the hospital.

“Thank you to our staff for their resilience and professionalism in dealing with the situation.”

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