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Most of the operating rooms at Windsor Regional Hospital’s Ouellette campus have been shut down and surgeries are being postponed, while a new part is ordered and installed in the steam system that sterilizes instruments.

The shutdown came into effect on Thursday morning. A new pressure release valve is ordered and expected to arrive Friday.

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“But it will take a good part of the day to put the system in and make sure it’s running properly,” said CEO David Musyj. He said everything should be back to normal by midnight or early Saturday morning.

He said hospital staff are contacting patients scheduled for surgery to either postpone it or move it to the hospital’s Met campus, where the sterilization system is working.

“We will be communicating with the impacted patients directly and working with their surgeons to rebook their surgeries as soon as possible,” he said in a notice to hospital staff.