Power cut at maternity hospital in Andhra’s Tirupati; patients' kin stage protest
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A government maternity hospital in Andhra Pradesh faced power outages on Sunday for hours. Meanwhile, patients' kin blocked traffic and raised slogans to express their concerns, further demanding the safety of patients.
Power supply at a government maternity hospital in Andhra Pradesh was disrupted on Sunday for hours, creating chaos and troubling the relatives of the patients.
As the hospital went dark on Sunday, the hospital administration transferred emergency patients to an adjoining ward while other patients were forced to spend the night in the dark for hours.
Panicked after learning about the power cut and the hospital staff relocating patients, their relatives blocked traffic and raised slogans to express their concerns, further demanding the safety of patients.
Earlier this week, on Saturday, at least three infants lost their lives at RIMS Government General Hospital in the neighbouring district of Kadapa due to lack of power supply.
As Andhra Pradesh is facing a power shortage forcing long power cuts, the leader of the opposition and former CM Chandrababu Naidu urged the Chief Secretary to provide uninterrupted power to at least key sectors.
The Telugu Desam Legislature Party (TDP) chief on Sunday wrote a letter to CS over the power crisis.
In the open letter to the CS, the TDP chief said ‘’In 2014, after the state reorganisation, there was a power deficit of 22.5 million units in AP. By implementing reforms and giving incentives, the state achieved surplus status in 2019. By this time, the installed capacity had increased from 9,529 MW to 19,160 MW. Thus, AP became one of the three power surplus states in the country.
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