Cancelled surgeries at Cambridge Memorial Hospital due to mechanical failure will be rescheduled
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Surgeries that had to be cancelled last week at Cambridge Memorial Hospital are now being rescheduled.
There were 54 elective surgeries and 39 minor procedures cancelled at the hospital last Thursday and Friday.
The procedures were delayed after some of the hospital's surgical equipment became unusable or unsterilized by the humidity after the air conditioning system went down in a part of the hospital. This was the result of a mechanical failure.
"We are in dialogue right now with all of our various surgeons' offices as well as staffing to open additional [operating room] blocks so that we can get these rescheduled as quickly as possible," April McCulloch, the hospital's director of medical programs, told CBC News.
Currently, none of them have been rescheduled but patients will be contacted by the relevant surgeons about a new appointment, she added.
McCulloch said the hospital had enough sterilized equipment for people requiring urgent care or procedures.
The hospital has since launched an investigation into the incident to ensure it doesn't happen again, McCulloch said.
"We're very focused on what exactly occurred," McCulloch said. "Because the investigation is ongoing, I don't really have anything more to offer except that we're taking this very seriously."
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