Health Dept ‘assessing’ impact of load shedding on facilities
Minister of Health Joe Phaahla says the department is busy assessing the impact of load shedding on healthcare facilities.
This comes amid growing calls for all public health facilities to be exempted from load shedding.
Several healthcare organisations have expressed concern about the impact of the blackouts on doctors, nurses and patients.
“The minister has ordered the director-general, working with provincial heads of Health Departments to finalise the assessment of the impact already in the past week,” the department’s spokesperson Foster Mohale said.
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“In the meantime, minister has been engaging with the relevant authorities and entities including Minister of Public Enterprises, Eskom and municipalities on the processes to be followed in order to exempt health facilities from load shedding.
Mohale says the minister is also working to secure additional sources of power, in addition to generators, in an effort to keep the lights on at health facilities around the country.
