There has been a serious water problem for five days in the Kandy National Hospital, where more than three thousand inpatients are treated, surgeries are performed day and night, and intensive care units are maintained, according to hospital sources.
A hospital spokesman told Lankasara that a problem with water reaching the tanks due to a faulty condition in the pipeline supplying water to the hospital has caused the water crisis that has been going on for five days Due to this issue the toilet system has become completely dirty for five days.
Kandy National Hospital requires more than one and a half hundred thousand litres of water for its daily needs. Currently, there are tanks that can hold four hundred thousand litres of water in the hospital system.
However, the source revealed that until last month, these tanks had maximum water capacity, but gradually the water level in the tanks progressively dropped, and today, all four water tanks do not even have twenty thousand litres of water. The same sources claim that the Kandy Municipal Council, which is in charge of water management at the hospital, has not responded favourably despite being told of this condition.
“Due to this situation, the outpatient department, intensive care unit, blood transfusion unit, mental illness prevention unit, cardiac unit and surgery are being disrupted. Bowsers are being brought and water is being distributed at various places…” said a hospital spokesman.
In an inquiry about this, Municipal Commissioner Ishan Wijethilaka of the Municipal Council of Kandy said that in the past 24 hours, 87000 litres were supplied to the Kandy National Hospital by bowsers.
He says that this water crisis has arisen due to the increase in water consumption due to the prevailing hot climate.
