Dumsor: Okoe-Boye Advises Hospitals to Utilize Generators
Dumsor: Okoe-Boye advises hospitals to utilize generators. Stay informed on energy management during power outages.
This comes in response to requests for health facilities to be exempted from the ongoing intermittent power cuts due to their negative impact on healthcare delivery. Speaking to the media during a visit to the Korle Bu Teaching Hospital, Dr. Okoe-Boye dismissed claims of neglect toward the health sector and urged the public to address these issues objectively.
“Because someone did a video of one minute, 40 seconds and said lights have gone out, everybody goes emotional. The truth is that, if the country experiences some issues with power availability, hospitals are not outside the country, they will also experience some.Another truth is that most of our hospitals have standby power plants, but just like management of a house, you can go to a house, they have a generator but maybe the generator has an issue.
“The one to put in petrol has an issue. Let’s stick to the essentials. Let’s ask a hospital, how is your generator? Is it working? If it’s not working, have you approached the ministry? If it’s working, who was in charge? Why didn’t you make it work? I don’t want to go into the details. We should not get sensational. Let’s stick to the essentials.
“If we want to discuss power supply in hospitals and standby generators, let’s discuss it. That is the way to make progress. You can do an audit, in Accra, there are forty government hospitals, out of the forty, about thirty have power plants. Ten don’t have. Doctor, what are you doing about it? That is the way to make progress,” Okoe-Boye said.
Source Citinews
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