The organization monitored 34 health centers in 15 states of the country, where more than 70% of the power plants were working, after they were left without service due to a national blackout that occurred in the early hours of August 30.
A survey of 34 health centres in 15 states of the country, conducted by Monitor Salud, found that in 73.3% of the health centres surveyed, the power plants were operating during the national blackout.
The power outage occurred in at least 20 states in the country since the early hours of Friday, August 30, and lasted for more than 15 hours in some places.
“In 84.4% of the centers there is a power plant, but not all of them work, as is the case of the Ángel Larralde Hospital, located in Naguanagua, Carabobo state, where the plant never started up, so no patient could be provided with care, not even in emergencies, all were referred to the Central Hospital of Valencia,” Monitor Salud reports in a press release.
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According to this record, in 44.8% of hospitals the plants must be turned on manually in the event of an emergency, while in 55.2% the lighting is automatic.
In hospitals such as the one in Lídice in Caracas, the plant started up as soon as the power went out; however, minutes later a failure occurred that forced technicians to check and turn it on manually, reports Monitor Salud.
“The electricity crisis is not an issue that is addressed in all hospitals and it affects the interior of the country more severely, as occurred in the state of Lara, specifically in the Dr. Luis Gómez López Hospital, where scheduled surgeries could not be performed due to the lack of electricity.”
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