Last Friday’s vigil was episodic Evangelismos Hospitalwhere for more than 40 minutes there has been a violation due to power outage which once again put the hospital’s electromechanical equipment to the test. How does he complain? Evangelismos Hospital Workers UnionLast Friday evening, during general vigils, with hundreds arriving at the emergency room and hundreds of patients being treated, there was a power outage for the umpteenth time, “the hospital was plunged into darkness for more than 40 minutes.” .

According to the complaint, “patients left the wards in a panic. On the floors, high-capacity oxygen machines failed, and the medical staff ran to cover patients who needed it with conventional oxygen machines. In the intensive care unit on the ninth floor, support for critically ill patients depended on the battery life (backup power) of drug infusion devices, and patient vital signs monitors were turned off and staff temporarily connected them to portable monitors used for translations until their battery lasts. Even uninterruptible power outlets did not work at the CHPP, all laboratories and the axial one were turned off. As if all this wasn’t enough, several orderlies, as well as patients, got stuck in the hospital’s elevators and it took the intervention of the fire department to free them.

Due to power outage from DEDDIE – Representatives of Evangelismos workers talk about outdated electro-mechanical installations.

According to a notice from the administration of the hospital in the 1st Sanatorium of Attica, the cause of the riot was a power outage from DEDDIE. As soon as there was a power outage, the management of the technical service and electricians of the hospital was informed, and the checkpoint brigade went to the place, which took the necessary actions to restore power supply. The protocols in place for these cases were followed to ensure that no patient was at risk and the on-call service continued to operate as normal. “The power was restored relatively quickly when it comes to a ‘state’ like Evangelism,” a hospital nurse told K. According to the information, today the hospital administration will hold a meeting with interested services and departments on the necessary measures to modernize the hospital’s electrical equipment.

The hospital has experienced at least three major power outages in the past four years. The previous case occurred in early December during a hospital night shift, when the hospital premises were left without electricity for at least 30 minutes. Representatives of hospital workers talk about outdated electromechanical installations, about generators that are not properly maintained, as a result of which they do not start 1-2 minutes after a power outage, and are delayed in some areas for 25 minutes and in others even for 45 minutes, but and for the severe understaffing of the technical service, which has largely been left to contractors who even delay staff salaries.