Water leak causes flood at Children’s Hospital

Construction on the Jim Pattison Children’s Hospital suffered a setback this month.

Parts of the facility flooded on Jan. 25 after a water line in one of the main floor bathrooms sprung a leak. Water also seeped into the floor below before it was stopped.

“While this is an unfortunate setback to progress in isolated areas of the building, construction in other areas of the hospital is not affected by the leak,” a Saskatchewan Health Authority spokesperson wrote in an email to 650 CKOM.

While the extent of the damage had yet to be determined, the issue was not expected to delay the opening of the hospital slated for later this year.

Further details  were expected to be released following a review by the contractor in charge of the site.

It’s not the first setback for the project.

Construction was suspended in November 2015 when a forklift crashed into a patient room on the Royal University Hospital’s main floor.

Work was also halted for a time in July 2016 following the death of a worker in a jobsite accident.