Three names submitted, waiting for a response from Eskom Awaiting response on Witbank and Rob Ferreira hospitals, which are on the priority list.
During the week, Dr Phaahla ordered the director-general working with provincial heads of health departments to finalise the assessment of the impact of load shedding in the past week. He also engaged with other relevant authorities and entities, including Public Enterprises Minister Pravin Gordhan's office, Eskom and municipalities on the processes to be followed to exempt health facilities from power outages.
Dr Phaahla said although the majority of public health facilities had backup power supply systems, which included generators, these sources of energy were not designed to provide backup electricity for an extended period. “Some of these generators are old, while others cannot power the entire facility. As a result, a lot of equipment is at risk. Generators have been proven not to adequately meet the increasing demands during load shedding, hence, some hospitals are left without a choice but forced to switch off some critical areas, which now compromise patient care. That is why provinces such as Limpopo have resorted to elective surgeries being on hold until further notice,” Dr Phaahla detailed.
Dr Phaahla added provincial health departments had been urged to consolidate their lists of facilities for submission in the follow-up meeting next week with Eskom instead of individual facilities doing requests, as these would assist the teams to determine the cost of additional resources for network reconfiguration.“The criteria for hospital exclusion include patient volumes, the nature of specialised services they provide and technological and medical equipment they have.
Why not all?
This is incompetence at its best, all health facilities must be exempted period! No negotiations nothing.
In the Eastern Cape, I won't be surprised to hear that the exempted hospitals from Eskom_SA Loadshedding are only those in the former ciskei. This province is a mess.🤦♀️
He even looks like he finds this shit funny himself
Why are still having him as our president
All hospitals should be exempted.
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