Medical building patients who had to climb the stairs express relief

Elevator, goooiiing up.

It may be slow moving — enough that people often still use the stairs to descend — but patients with appointments at the Liliha Medical Building are thrilled the four-story building’s elevator is working again after being broken for what many said was longer than a year.

Among comments heard this week at the building: “Thank the Lord, four floors,” and “They finally fixed the buggah.”

“It was kind of exhausting,” Sia Fononga said of the walk upstairs to the fourth floor as she waited for her partner, who was having an eye exam. “It’s a relief.”

On Oct. 10, three days after Civil Beat wrote about the problem , the elevator was inspected by the agency that signs off on elevator maintenance w

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