Full power restored at Sudbury hospital, normal operations resume

Health Sciences North is back to normal operations after Tuesday's severe weather prompted the hospital to cancel hundreds of patient appointments. (Supplied)

Health Sciences North is back to normal operations after Tuesday's severe weather prompted the hospital to cancel hundreds of patient appointments.

What the hospital termed an 'infrastructure emergency was declared yesterday afternoon "due to extreme weather events that impacted our electrical system," HSN said in a news release.

 "Full power has been restored to the Ramsey Lake Health Centre thanks to the diligent efforts and hard work through the night of our facilities team," the release said.

 "Our clinical teams and medical staff are also to be commended for their collaborative approaches in responding to this emergency."

Health Sciences North officials credited its facilities team (pictured) for restoring power. 'They worked so hard through the night be bring us back to full power this morning,' officials said.Hospital officials are working to contact people who had appointments cancelled to rebook them. All non-urgent outpatient procedures and clinics scheduled for Wednesday were affected.

The problems at the hospital are related to Tuesday's severe weather, including afternoon thunderstorms when 27 mm of rain fell, mostly between 2 and 3 p.m.

Water got in the building

"We had some water that got into the building and that ended up impacting some of our electrical systems and basically ended up putting us on backup power because of those issues," hospital spokesperson Jason Turnbull told CTV's Amanda Hicks.

"The incident is still under investigation to really look at the specific cause. And I'm not the expert in all of that, but just what from ... I know and from what I understand -- from what we know so far -- is water got into the building. It impacted the electrical system. That system went down, put us on backup power, and that's how we ended up in the situation that we were in."

"We sincerely apologize to all of those impacted by this decision," the release said.

"We greatly appreciate your patience and understanding as we get back to our normal operations."

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