Water supply to the Navua Hospital was restored on Friday evening.
The Ministry of Health and Medical Services, while confirming this in a statement, said water disruptions occurred at Navua Hospital and near-by areas late on Wednesday night until Thursday.
“The hospital had measures in place such as sourcing water from water tanks and supplied bottles of drinking water to patients after the Water Authority of Fiji sent out water disruption notifications,” the statement read.
The ministry stated water disruption at the hospital did not last seven days as reported by The Fiji Times and neither were patients using the bushes to carry out their ‘business’.
However, patients and some staff at the hospital told The Fiji Times on Friday that they had been without water for about seven days and that patients and visitors had been using the nearby surroundings to relieve themselves.
They said toilets that were not flushed for days were filthy and smelly and had urged the authorities to find a solution to the problem because water shortage at the facility had been an ongoing issue.
Questions sent to the Water Authority of Fiji were unanswered when this edition went to press last night.
