Last Friday, medical staff at Jubilee Clinic were compelled to use their cellphone torches in order for them to continue carrying out their 'famous' essential service work of ministering to patients. We learn that the clinic's standby generator failed to kick in due to technical hitches when the public health facility's power supply was targeted for a load-shedding that lasted no less than four hours.
The Jubilee debacle comes a few weeks after another power cut left patients hopeless at Princess Marina Hospital in Gaborone. Since it is the norm at Marina - effectively Botswana's only referral hospital because Nyangabgwe is one merely in name - not to release information to the public, particularly the press, we are still uninformed about the extent of the disaster that certainly resulted from the power outage or lives lost on account of BPC's indiscriminate targeting for load-shedding during that dark and gloomy night in the second week of the New Year.
