Frustrations continue to rise for staff at the Vernon Jubilee Hospital after a toilet overflowed and sewage flooded into a medication room on the floor below.Oncologist Ed Hardy who works in the cancer centre said he was checking on the status of a patient when he heard about the leak. 
“The toilet backed up and overflowed pouring contaminated dirty water into the emergency room, into the medication room,” he said. “They aren’t able to give out the medication at the moment because it’s contaminated.”Hardy said the sewage contamination is just one more example of how desperately the hospital needs to be refurbished. He said there have been water leaks in the cancer centre, water leaking off a fluorescent light fixture in the outpatient department and black mould in the nursery.An emergency room “swimming” in sewage is 
just another in a long list of problems, Hardy said.The design process to add a second tower to the hospital is underway but Hardy said that the government has not yet made a firm commitment to fund it. With a scheduled phase one completion set for around 2011 he said the improvements are not coming fast enough.“This is something we deal with on a daily basis,” he said. “I think staff are doing an excellent job, the administration is supportive but it’s very difficult to get an agreement with the government.”Emergency room chief Mike Concannon said Monday afternoon that the issue is a plumbing problem and that the problem was being fixed. “The flooding of wastewater into the medication room isn’t a good thing,” he said.The flooding, mould and other structural issues are proof that Vernon Jubilee needs more than just a second tower, Concannon said.“I think it’s just a sign that this building is long past its date for replacement,” he said. “Our department is pretty decrepit so in terms of staff morale it’s not a good setting to be working in.”
“The toilet backed up and overflowed pouring contaminated dirty water into the emergency room, into the medication room,” he said. “They aren’t able to give out the medication at the moment because it’s contaminated.”Hardy said the sewage contamination is just one more example of how desperately the hospital needs to be refurbished. He said there have been water leaks in the cancer centre, water leaking off a fluorescent light fixture in the outpatient department and black mould in the nursery.An emergency room “swimming” in sewage is 
just another in a long list of problems, Hardy said.The design process to add a second tower to the hospital is underway but Hardy said that the government has not yet made a firm commitment to fund it. With a scheduled phase one completion set for around 2011 he said the improvements are not coming fast enough.“This is something we deal with on a daily basis,” he said. “I think staff are doing an excellent job, the administration is supportive but it’s very difficult to get an agreement with the government.”Emergency room chief Mike Concannon said Monday afternoon that the issue is a plumbing problem and that the problem was being fixed. “The flooding of wastewater into the medication room isn’t a good thing,” he said.The flooding, mould and other structural issues are proof that Vernon Jubilee needs more than just a second tower, Concannon said.“I think it’s just a sign that this building is long past its date for replacement,” he said. “Our department is pretty decrepit so in terms of staff morale it’s not a good setting to be working in.”
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