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Certain health facilities will (finally!!) be excluded from loadshedding. Sadly, out of the 130 hospitals and clinics on the list, City Power said it's only able to exempt 10 facilities. 😟 Here's why:

has announced that it has started excluding certain hospitals and clinics from load shedding because of the pressures and challenges the health facilities go through during the deliberate power cuts.to consider ways to exempt its facilities from load shedding because of the critical nature of the service they render to the residents.

“While we are committed as City Power to ensure there is minimal to no disruptions to the essential services such as clinics and hospitals, it is difficult to exclude all of them from load shedding. From the list we received there are over 130 health facilities including clinics and hospitals within the City of Joburg.”Hospitals exempt from load shedding

Mangena said based on the assessments of their network, it is only able to exempt about 10 facilities, for now, in the city’s supply network. “The reason is because of our network configurations and the fact that most of these facilities are embedded within the network blocks, and we have limited resources that could be used to operate, often physically, during load shedding.”

 

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