Is the Hospital Contaminated or the Management Incompetent?

I find it strange that HUKM has to be shut down for more than a month to repair a “leak in the autoclave piping system”.

It is also interesting that a consultant has to be engaged to rectify a standard maintenance/breakdown failure. Doesn’t HUKM have a senior engineering staff like a Director of Engineering? One should also not need the Cabinet’s approval to get this job done as the hospital should have a maintenance budget.

Or is the HUKM trying to tell us the autoclave system was not built according to the specs?
Based on my limited experience with autoclaves and clean air rooms in pharmaceutical plants, the maximum downtime to remedy such a breakdown should be not more than a few days.

Finding and repairing the leak should need a day and cleaning out and re-establishing and proving the sterile conditions should take 3 or 4 days.

Hospitals should also have a plant shutdown for one or two days at least once a year so that proper servicing can be done on critical equipment.

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