[contextly_sidebar id=”CqfYCSvHFUjXiaw3I1kksakgx25qYwYV”]The situation has compelled the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) to shed load in the country.<\/p>\n
The Public Relations Officer of KATH, Kwame Frimpong who bemoaned the situation in an interview with Citi News<\/strong>\u00a0said the cost of fueling the generators is negatively impacting on the revenue generated by the hospital.<\/p>\n He said the hospital\u00a0with the support of it’s board and the Ministry of Health acquired \u00a0four heavy-duty power plants with a total capacity of 2800KVA\u00a0and that \u201cwhenever we have a power outage from ECG for a period of about four to five hours we have to spend about GHc10, 000 on diesel.”<\/p>\n “That\u2019s quite expensive,\u201d he lamented.<\/p>\n The PRO said the operations of the hospital have not been affected by the load shedding exercise, but added that, \u201cwe cannot take it [fuel money] from patients so it becomes an additional cost to our operations.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cEven when circumstances beyond their [ECG] control and they have to cut supply of power to us, we’ve made alternative arrangement that give us power when supply from the ECG is no longer available…This backup system is enough to supply our power needs,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n –<\/p>\n By: Godwin Allotey Akweiteh\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n![\"kath\"](\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/kath.jpg\")
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