{"id":50313,"date":"2025-08-07T11:59:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-07T11:59:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/50313\/"},"modified":"2025-08-07T11:59:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-07T11:59:07","slug":"the-alfred-hospital-issues-apology-after-power-outage-disrupts-three-surgeries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/50313\/","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":2,"featured_media":50314,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[64,63,134,21033,3727,42587,1369,42586],"class_list":["post-50313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-entertainment","tag-operation","tag-patient","tag-power-outage","tag-surgery","tag-the-alfred-hospital"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50313","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50313"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50313\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}