Hospitals in Texas are EVACUATED as patients are left without water or heat and staff are left to clean toilets with trash bags

Hospitals in Texas were being evacuated after patients were left without water or power as the winter storm continues to leave the power grid crippled – and another storm was set to roll through.

St. David’s South Austin Medical Center and Dell Children’s Medical Center, both in Austin, Texas, are transferring patients to other hospitals, according to local news reports.

All facilities in the area are under strain with another storm set to roll through the area, meaning no hospital was able to accept a large number of transferred patients.

Because of the weather emergency, power outages and water failures, no one hospital can accept all of the patients that need to be transferred, according to David Huffstutler, the CEO of St. David’s HealthCare, KUT reported.

St. David’s is without water pressure and is also losing heat because water feeds the facility’s boiler.

The hospital has just under 300 patients.

Other hospitals were facing similar issues, with toilets that can’t flush and no heat.

Some even had to transport human waste in trash bags because of the lack of water, KVUE reported. 

Officials with the hospitals said they were working with the city and other medical officials to transport patients home or to other facilities in the area, where possible. 

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