{"id":126382,"date":"2025-08-07T13:01:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-07T13:01:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/126382\/"},"modified":"2025-08-07T13:01:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-07T13:01:11","slug":"the-alfred-hospital-issues-apology-after-power-outage-disrupts-three-surgeries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/126382\/","title":{"rendered":"The Alfred Hospital issues apology after power outage disrupts three surgeries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">The Alfred Hospital has apologised to three patients and their families after a power outage forced doctors to pause procedures mid-operation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Power was temporarily cut to three operating rooms at the Alfred on Wednesday afternoon, the hospital confirmed in a statement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">&#8220;Taking appropriate precautions, three procedures were paused during the loss of power and we have apologised to those patients, and their families,&#8221; a spokesperson for the Alfred said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">&#8220;The affected patients have each since received their surgery and are recovering in hospital.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Backup power was available at the time of the outage.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">The surgeries were paused as a &#8220;clinical decision&#8221; made in the patients&#8217; interests.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">The hospital would not comment on what type of procedures were disrupted, due to patient confidentiality, or how long the outage lasted.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">All operating rooms at the Alfred have since resumed activity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Alfred Hospital has apologised to three patients and their families after a power outage forced doctors to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":126383,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4740,50,6524,13987,36914,47641,77600],"class_list":{"0":"post-126382","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-australia","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-operation","11":"tag-patient","12":"tag-power-outage","13":"tag-surgery","14":"tag-the-alfred-hospital"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114987616445518481","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126382","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=126382"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126382\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/126383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}