Texas hospitals dealt winter weather blow scramble to get clean water to patients
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Some Texas hospital officials are scrambling to bring in clean water supply while delaying elective surgeries after brutal winter weather resulted in a gradually resolving power, and now emerging water, crisis this week.
Houston Methodist told Fox News on Friday that water has been restored in two hospitals, but the health system is still scheming ways to usher in clean water to other patients and staff. "Water is now restored in our two hospitals that lost water over the week," a spokesperson for Houston Methodist wrote in an email. "But because of the boil order we are still finding creative ways to bring water in to flush toilets and to provide our patients and staff with clean water."
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