He drove around hospitals on Sunday night (Picture: Marcus McCluskey/Twitter)

A man whose grandma was hit by the mains leak in Manchester has bought 200 bottles of water to help ease the hospital crisis.

Marcus McCluskey, 23, spent three hours delivering the water to Manchester Royal Infirmary, Manchester Royal Eye Hospital and Royal Manchester Children’s Hospital on Sunday night.

A major water leak forced the hospitals, as well as Saint Mary’s, to cancel operations with just hours notice.

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‘My grandmother has been treated at Manchester Royal since July 2017, and a few hundred bottles of water is nothing to ensure that the hard-working staff and most seriously ill patients have access to water,’ Marcus said.




‘The wards were doing everything they could, they had given all patients an individual bottle of water and were trying to source more.

‘It was just a bad situation made worse by local supermarkets being closed on a Sunday.’

What a hero (Picture: Facebook)

Marcus, an emergency medical dispatcher for North West Ambulance Service, bought the water from a Tesco Express and a Sainsbury’s Local.

Staff at the shops helped him load his car, and a Sainsbury’s assistant store manager even contributed £10 towards the cost.

Marcus then set off on his mission, only finishing the delivery at 11pm.

He bought around 200 bottles of water (Picture: Marcus McCluskey/Twitter)

Operations scheduled for Monday morning had to be cancelled (Picture: Marcus McCluskey/Twitter)

He split the supply of water between adult accident and emergency, child accident and emergency, neonatal and paediatric intensive care units, the birthing suite, and the ward where his grandmother is being treated.

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The hospitals had been forced to cancel operations scheduled for Monday morning, and had urged patients to stay away unless there was an ‘urgent clinical need’.

MAnchester University NHS Foundation Trust reassured patients that cancer operations would take place as planned, as would any urgent procedures.