Plans in the works to keep lights on at Hospitals during loadshedding
The Health Minister says they are still working
on a plan to keep the lights on, during power cuts, at the country’s hospitals.
Joe Phaahla says they have made progress in getting more health facilities excluded from loadshedding.
He says the next step is to source funds from the department’s Infrastructure Fund to buy cables to isolate the power source feed to certain hospitals which are not exempt from the blackouts.
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The money from the Infrastructure Fund will also be used to purchase independent power supplies, like solar systems, to introduce an independent supply of electricity.
Phaahla made the announcement during a post-SONA briefing in Pretoria yesterday. "We are at a stage where both Eskom and the municipalities which are electricity distributors have indicated certain infrastructure which needs to be inserted in terms of cables to bypass.
Whether the supply of the health facility is strongly linked to the local supply of residential business areas, they have given us the number of hospitals which we see as a priority where they say that additional cables are required."
