Power Outages, Hospitals

Mr MARSHALL (Dunstan—Leader of the Opposition) (14:12): Another question for the Premier: how many hospitals experienced generator failures during the blackout last night?

The Hon. J.J. SNELLING (Playford—Minister for Health, Minister for the Arts, Minister for Health Industries) (14:12): Only the one—Flinders Medical Centre—as I referred to in my ministerial statement. There was some speculation that the RAH had had problems with its generator. My advice is that that's not correct. People may have had that impression because the generator at the RAH generates electricity to the critical parts of the Royal Adelaide Hospital, so some people may have been under the impression that the generator had failed at the RAH, but that, in fact, was not correct. It worked exactly as normal.

There was an issue with the generator at the Port Augusta Hospital, but the secondary generators at the Port Augusta Hospital kicked in and we were able to provide power there. To the best of my advice, they are the only issues we have had with generators in our hospitals.