A Toronto hospital cancelled all “non-essential” actions on Friday after a boiler system failure reduce off its provide of warmth and scorching water.
Unity Well being Toronto referred to as the boiler failure at St. Joseph’s Well being Centre within the metropolis’s west finish an “emergency scenario” affecting its means to offer providers throughout the hospital.
“The well being and security of all of our sufferers is a high precedence and we’re working to maintain our buildings heat as attainable as we resolve the difficulty,” an announcement posted to the Unity Well being web site mentioned.
Unity Well being mentioned until it is a life-threatening emergency, sufferers ought to search out one other hospital’s emergency division. All non-essential actions had been cancelled Friday throughout its ambulatory, procedural and surgical areas.
The assertion mentioned sufferers receiving dialysis or chemotherapy remedies should not affected and may nonetheless attend their appointments.
Sufferers with scheduled appointments will likely be contacted immediately by their care group, the hospital community mentioned.
No deliberate affected person transfers
In an replace shortly earlier than midday on Friday, Unity Well being mentioned it was not limiting victors and had no deliberate affected person transfers.
“However we proceed to observe temperatures and this evolving scenario,” the replace learn.
Temperatures are anticipated to high out at -3 C in Toronto on Friday, earlier than dropping to -13 C in a single day.
Unity Well being mentioned it couldn’t settle for “beneficiant presents” from neighborhood members of blankets and house heaters.
Family members can carry further clothes or blankets for in-patients in the event that they wish to, however the hospital community mentioned digital objects should not being accepted for security causes.
A spokesperson declined an interview and referred to the assertion when reached for remark Friday.
The community additionally operates two different hospitals within the metropolis, St. Michael’s Hospital and Windfall Healthcare.
