MANAGEMENT at Mission Hospital in Chipata has complained of intermittent power outages disrupting operations in the theatre and other critical units at the Seventh Day Adventist (SDA)-run hospital.
Mwami Mission Hospital administrator, Enock Chitakwa said the hospital operations were being negatively affected by electricity load-shedding.
Mr Chitakwa said operations in the theatre were being disturbed because Zesco had not availed a schedule for load-shedding. “Hospital operations especially in the theatre department have been badly affected by the intermittent power outages as a result of load-shedding.
“We are appealing to Government to consider treating this as an emergency case,” he said.
He said this when Luangeni Member of Parliament, Charles Zulu donated 80 blankets to the institution. Mr Chitakwa said Zesco should introduce a time table of load-shedding in order to help the hospital management plan ahead. He also said the hospital had inadequate incubators and appealed to stakeholders to assist procure more machines.
And Mr Zulu, who is Lands, Energy and Water Development Deputy Minister, said the current load-shielding being experienced in some parts of the country was as a result of increased demand for electricity.
Mr Zulu said the country had in recent years experienced economic and population growth. He said Zambia had not invested enough in the energy sector in the past years and that the Government was now working towards upgrading the sector. The
Government was currently extending Kariba North Bank and Kafue Gorge power stations to increase electricity supply. Mr Zulu assured the hospital management that he would discuss the matter with Zesco regional authorities.
He also donated 70 blankets to be distributed to all clinics in his constituency.
[Times of Zambia]
it really does suck!!!
PF govt
chacine uli mbuli iwe.
these guys have failed to maintain the little resources we have..how do you recycle chitundu who failed before..?
you mean RB never thought of buying even a kama small genset for a hospital which is right in his backyard? this is embarrassing bane akachila kambushi kasengula epo kekele. which part of that proverb doesn’t R.B.and easterners understand?
Loadsheding during rb was minimal not now under the cobra. He promised no power cuts, tv licence but nothing has happened. More worse things to come cry my beloved
@5. are you sure?
#4, he won’t understand the proverb because he is not bemba and probably not Zambian
For real this sucks but let’s not blame the government entirely. This problem is a good candidate for contingency planning. I do not know if the hospital in question has a standby generator or battery backup invetors. If not, it is time the authorities of the hospital mobilized the community to look into acquiring a standby generator. If it means soliciting for funds from farmers, businesses, and people, get it done since it is for a good cause. Other fund raisers can also be used. God helps those who help themselves. One Zambia One Nation.
it rlly hates especially where u are nt evn notified of th iregularities, u only see power going off at random. thy cnt evn annonce th cause 4 dat and th time of restoring power. thy are only busy announcing on th power cuts on thoz with debts. why shud thy only b intrestd in mking mney an nt serving and saving people? we are losing so many electrical appliances bcoz of th same an we cnt do good work on th computers and othr office equipmnt.
today theres no power at Mwami hospital, though the Genset is okey, these just can’t switch it on. management is very bad at this hospital. The Govt should come in and make a clean up. This hospital is being run by grade sevens, nines and twelves just because they belong to the seventh adventist church.