Patients and healthcare workers were evacuated from Wagga Base Hospital at around 7.30am this morning after a fire alarm was set off in the Day Surgery Unit.
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The alarm was set off from smoke emanating from the communication server room, which firefighters say was caused by a minor electrical fault, and is no cause for further alarm.
The fault is currently being attended to and is expected to be fixed later today.
Staff were evacuated to the front of the hospital, while 11 patients were evacuated from the Day Surgery Unit to another area in the hospital.
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Murrumbidgee Local Health District's director of clinic operations Carla Bailey said the hospital would soon be back to normal, with all patients resuming their surgeries later today.
"There was a delay of approximately 45 minutes in commencing theatre whilst the situation was resolved," Ms Bailey said.
"Patients that were scheduled to have a procedure in the Angiography Suite today will have their procedure at Regional Imaging today."
Turvey Park Fire and Rescue NSW station officer Justin Bentley said the electrical fault was a minor one, and no cause for further alarm.
"We found the problem, isolated it, maintenance came up and we handed it to them, and we left," Mr Bentley said.
"There was no fire, it was just an electrical fault - it's just a routine call."
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