Patients evacuated after pipe burst at Reading hospital

Published 8 Nov 2010 09:30 0 Comments

MORE than 50 patients on two wards at the Royal Berkshire Hospital had to be evacuated last night after a water pipe burst.

A pipe in the plant room on Victoria Ward burst at around 7pm sending water gushing into Caversham Ward on the floor below, bringing down ceiling tiles in the staff office area.

Hospital spokesman Joe Wise said this morning: "The water doesn't appear to have affected patient areas but all patients on both wards were evacuated to other parts of the hospital.

"About 50 patients have been moved to other parts of the hospital but they should be back on the wards within a few hours.

"Two teams carried out a deep clean last night, a team of house keepers was drafted in and a team of matrons who took the opportunity once patients had been moved to carry out a deep clean."

Victoria ward caters for renal patients and Caversham is neuro rehabilitation unit where patients include those recovering from strokes.

Fire crews from Wokingham Road, Caversham Road, Whitley Wood and an operation support unit from the Dee Road station helped evacuate the two wards in the hospital’s Battle Block, and it took the firefighters nearly two-and-a-half hours to pump away the water.

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This article appeared in Reading Chronicle 08 Nov 10

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