The Mother Teresa University Hospital Center has faced another dangerous power outage, this time in the building where the Central Resuscitation, Imaging Service and Day Hospital operate. According to sources within the hospital, the outage lasted for several minutes, causing chaos, panic and fear among patients, medical staff and family members.
There is still no official and accurate information about the duration of the outage, but doctors are adamant: in these services, even seconds are vital. The outage has only affected this building, where the former Emergency Department previously operated, while the rest of the QSUT has not had problems with the power supply.
Medical sources indicate that this is not the first time that such outages have occurred at the QSUT. Problems with electricity are recurring frequently, exposing a serious infrastructural weakness in the largest health institution in the country.
The situation has also been described as alarming by the patients' families, who say that in critical moments they have accompanied their relatives with their cell phone lights in corridors where vital equipment and uninterrupted security systems must function.
Meanwhile, Evis Sala, the Minister of Health, has contented herself with a post on social media, without a detailed official response, without technical clarifications and without any announcement of concrete measures or institutional responsibilities. A minimalist response to a situation that, according to doctors and witnesses, has directly endangered the lives of patients.
Institutional silence and the treatment of power outages as ordinary incidents in a facility where life depends on electricity, strip this event of any technical justification and turn it into a serious health safety problem. The question that remains unanswered is simple: how many times does the light have to go out in the Intensive Care Unit for someone to be held accountable?
