Health officials announced late Friday that they had resumed elective surgeries at Los Angeles County-USC Medical Center, following a temporary halt to the operations that began earlier this week after the discovery of mold in a room used to sterilize surgical equipment.
The L.A. County Department of Health Services said in a statement that the hospital had “begun to ramp up elective surgeries” and was expected to be at full capacity soon.
Administrators did not immediately respond to a request for the number of surgeries performed Friday or for further details about when they expected to be back to normal.
The statement said officials had detected a “minor, localized water leak” and no mold was found anywhere else in the Boyle Heights facility.
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