A TANKER leaking oxygen outside the Royal Hobart Hospital forced the closure of CBD streets this morning.
About 7.15am a leak was detected during refilling of a liquid-oxygen tank in Campbell St.
The street was blocked at the Liverpool St intersection, but police said there was no need to evacuate any patients in the hospital.
However, administrative staff in E block (closest to the street) were either evacuated or relocated within the hospital as a precaution.
Further details at The Mercury
The leak was contained shortly after 8am and staff returned to their offices.
An RHH spokesman said a small number of patients were transferred to individual bottled oxygen before being connected to the hospital’s emergency oxygen supply.
It is expected those patients will be returned to the normal supply within a few hours.
Access to the emergency department was not affected.
Bus services, which would normally stop outside the RHH in Campbell St, were forced to divert.
Campbell St was reopened to all traffic about 8.45am.
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