KOZHIKODE: Severe water shortage put patients and their bystanders in huge difficulty at the Govt.
Ironically, rain, that lashed the city on the previous night, was the culprit for the unexpected water scarcity.
Pump sets at Mavoor and Kuzhimal, that supply water to the MCH, were burned in the heavy lightening and shower on Wednesday.
With the pumping stopped, water supply to the hospital was cut for the day.
A large queue of bystanders with pots and buckets were seen waiting for water from 5 o’clock in the morning.
With water supply cut, authorities brought water from several other sources in small vehicles to meet the large need.
On Thursday, MCH authorities could only supply 2 lakh litres, which left many patients and their bystanders go without water.
"We had to wait in a queue for more than four hours in the morning to get a small bucket of water," said Ramanathan Nair, a bystander.
This is nothing new to MCH.
This is the second incident in the last one week.