Power outage at KK hospital disrupts surgery, leaves medics in darkness

A power outage occurred at Queen Elizabeth Hospital (HQE) in Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, today, forcing at least one surgery to be stopped midway pending transfer to another hospital where the surgery could continue.

According to a notice sent to hospital staff, the hospital’s transformer suffered a failure at 12.05pm today, and repair work could last until 2pm tomorrow...