CAPE TOWN - Health Minister Joe Phaahla has kickstarted a process to exempt health facilities from rolling blackouts.
Phaahla said on Monday he hoped the country’s unstable power supply would improve. But it has instead deteriorated to the extent where stage six power cuts were again implemented earlier this month.
Spokesperson Foster Mohale said Phaahla met with, amongst others, the minister of Public Enterprises, Eskom and municipalities on the specific processes that should be followed in order to exempt health facilities from load shedding.
“Minister Phaahla has been working on alternative additional sources over and above the generators, which are not meant for prolonged outages, to seek additional supply of power to be considered for installation in the health facilities in order to compliment the generators as part of [the] energy mix,” he said.
Meanwhile, unit two at Koeberg nuclear power station has been brought back online and is producing at full capacity.
