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Power outage affects multiple floors at Kaohsiung Municipal Min-Sheng Hospital

A power outage affecting the fourth through ninth floors of the north building at Kaohsiung Municipal Min-Sheng Hospital has lasted for over 27 hours following an electrical system anomaly. Hospital officials reported that inpatients from the affected floors were transferred to the south building and that critical life-support equipment remained operational on backup power. The exact cause of the power system failure has not been publicly specified as repairs continue.

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The sources disagree.
Each position is reported as its publisher stated it. We do not reconcile them.
2 differing positions reported on attribution across 2 publishers; unresolved.
  • newtalk護理師
  • pts高雄民生醫院
2 differing positions reported on timing across 2 publishers; unresolved.
  • ettoday逾1天
  • newtalk逾27小時
WhereKaohsiung
22.616, 120.313 ±10 km
First reported6 days ago
Published2026-10-19 07:17 UTC
Sources3
How this travelled.
Reports3Independent tellings3
3 independently corroborated tellings.

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Global Event Monitor. Power outage affects multiple floors at Kaohsiung Municipal Min-Sheng Hospital. 2026-10-19T07:17:08.597Z. Status: published. urn:global-events-monitor:event:6415. https://global.eventmonitor.net/event/2026-10-19/1-5c89db9c

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