Marina refers patients to private facilities as water woes worsen
Thursday, September 10, 2015
Authorities at the facilities admitted to encountering complete water supply outages over the weekend.
However, by the time of going to press it was unclear how many patients had been referred, as well as the cost of their procedures, as officials were still looking for the figures. Last week, the hospital announced that patients would be transferred to other facilities if the water scarcity situation intensified.
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