You Won’t Believe Why New £36m Hospital Stands Empty

Rhondda Valley Hospital

A new £36m NHS hospital is empty – because the floors are too hot to walk on. Yes this ‘flagship hospital’ is almost a year behind its official opening because the floors are too hot.

Faults with the environmentally-friendly underfloor heating at the hospital mean the corridors are ‘as hot as a Mediterranean beach’.

Tiles on the floor are buckling from the high temperatures as it hits 40C inside the 108-bed Rhondda Valley Hospital in South Wales.

The underfloor heating system was championed as being environmentally-friendly because it recycles heat.

Patients are instead being treated at the crumbling Victorian hospital at nearby Llwynypia.

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Posted on May 12, 2009 | Filed Under Life