Planned power outages at the Isle of Man’s main hospital have been delayed after engineers found themselves foggy.
The first in a series of power outages over three nights for system upgrades, due to take place on Monday, will now continue later, Manx Care said.
A mobile scanner will be operational to support the Noble Hospital Emergency Department during the power outage.
These outages are necessary as part of ongoing work to upgrade the hospital’s electrical infrastructure.
Executive director of health services Oliver Radford said the works would “ensure resilient and reliable electricity distribution across the hospital for another two decades and beyond”.
The first of the outages, which is expected to last up to four hours, is scheduled to begin at 21:00 BST, with further outages on June 27 and July 1.
Affected service areas will experience a complete loss of the electrical grid, with temporary lighting and essential equipment powered by external generators.
Manx Care said the reductions would be managed as a “critical incident” with a full incident command team in place to ensure any issues could be resolved and disruption to patient care kept to a minimum.
Acknowledging the works would be “disruptive”, Mr Radford said they would reduce the “risk of power outages in the future, which could more seriously affect service delivery”.
