Marina refers patients to private facilities as water woes worsen

Princess Marina Hospital
Princess Marina Hospital

The national referral health centre, Princess Marina Hospital, was forced to transfer patients in need of emergency operations to private facilities as the water crisis deepened over the weekend.

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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