14 Die at Hospital as Rat Causes Outage
A power outage at a state-run hospital, caused when a rat gnawed through wiring, left 14 patients dead, including four newborn babies in incubators. Although the power went out Sunday night, the deaths were not discovered until Monday morning, raising questions about how employees handled the blackout. The attorney general’s office said it was investigating the deaths. The incident occurred when the power was cut to life-support machines and incubators at the Catarino Rivas Hospital in San Pedro Sula, 115 miles northwest of Tegucigalpa, the capital.
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