The North Cen­tral Re­gion­al Health Au­thor­i­ty has an­nounced that ur­gent elec­tri­cal up­grade works will take place at the Er­ic Williams Med­ical Sci­ences Com­plex from Fri­day at 6:00 a.m. to Mon­day at 6:00 a.m.

The works will in­volve one of the two ma­jor trans­form­ers on the hos­pi­tal’s elec­tri­cal grid. The au­thor­i­ty said the up­grade is part of mea­sures to im­prove the re­li­a­bil­i­ty of the elec­tri­cal sys­tem.

As a re­sult, sev­er­al ser­vices at the Com­plex will be post­poned dur­ing the pe­ri­od. These in­clude out­pa­tient clin­ics sched­uled for Fri­day, elec­tive surg­eries sched­uled for the same day, and ra­di­ol­o­gy ap­point­ments in­clud­ing CT scans, MRIs, ul­tra­sounds, and X-rays across all three days.

Pa­tients with sched­uled ap­point­ments for Fri­day will be con­tact­ed with new dates. Those who are not con­tact­ed are asked to call 645-2629.

The au­thor­i­ty con­firmed that crit­i­cal and emer­gency pa­tients will con­tin­ue to be seen at the Emer­gency De­part­ments, while per­sons re­quir­ing non-ur­gent care are ad­vised to use dis­trict health­care fa­cil­i­ties and health cen­tres dur­ing this pe­ri­od.

The au­thor­i­ty al­so said all crit­i­cal care ser­vices will re­main in place, with con­tin­gency mea­sures im­ple­ment­ed to en­sure pa­tient and staff safe­ty.

The North Cen­tral Re­gion­al Health Au­thor­i­ty ex­pressed ap­pre­ci­a­tion to the pub­lic for their co­op­er­a­tion dur­ing the pe­ri­od of the up­grade works.