Provincial Medical Director, Clemence Tshuma, said incessant power cuts had impacted heavily on the operations of the hospital, especially storage of drugs which need refrigeration.
He also said it had been difficult for surgeons to carry out operations due to non-availability of power and patients are dying while they wait for their turn.
Tshuma called on the government to install a solar power system at the hospital to act as back up to save the situation.
“Huge stocks of drugs are turning bad before we prescribe them to patients due to incessant power cut we are experiencing in the town. Something has to be urgently done because the situation has gone out of hand,” said Tshuma.
He also revealed that power cuts had affected the functioning of other machines, putting the lives of patients at risk.
“We have some critical machines which need electricity to save human lives but in this situation there is nothing we can do. There is a need for Zesa to treat hospitals as strategic institutions so that human lives can be saved,” he said.
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