Severn Trent donates water treatment system to Haiti hospital

Severn Trent Services has partnered with global humanitarian organisation Operation Blessing International (OBI) to install and commission a ClorTec T-6 Series sodium hypochlorite generation disinfection system at the Hôpital Universitaire de Mirebalais in Haiti.

Hôpital Universitaire de Mirebalais is a newly constructed 300-bed teaching hospital which will provide basic services to nearly 185,000 people, as well as secondary and tertiary care for central Haiti and the areas around Port-au-Prince.

The ClorTec T-6 Series system produces six pounds of sodium hypochlorite per day, which can be used to disinfect up to 165,000 gallons of water.

A Severn Trent technician installed the system at the hospital along with OBI staff. OBI will provide technical support and maintenance for the water system to ensure that water quality at the hospital is up to the US standard.

Severn Trent Services product manager Jean-Paul Monali said that the ClorTec electrolytic technology is ideal for isolated locations where water purification, waste treatment or surface disinfection is required.

"We are just happy to help continue to make clean, safe drinking water available to communities in need," he said.

OBI has drilled five water wells for the new hospital.