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‘Inconvenience for both patients & staff’

“Since morning, we were grappling with getting things in order, as the power supply in GMSH-16 was cut off at 5 am and it was restored only at 1.30 pm. Though we have a backup, it is very tough to work in these situations. The lifts were not operational, many machines, equipment and refrigerators work at a certain temperature, require high power and cannot work on generators. Vaccines from many health and wellness centres had to be shifted, as we did not want to take any risk of them getting spoilt. We had to postpone all elective surgeries and our main focus was the emergency and labour room. So many patients and staff faced inconvenience. Power is an essential service and this is not the right way to register a protest,” said Dr Suman Singh, Director Health Services.

Power supply to GMCH-32 disrupted at 2 am

At 2.00 am Tuesday morning, the electricity supply to GMCH-32 was disrupted, though generators automatically switched on within 30 seconds. According to Dr Sudhir Garg, the Medical Superintendent, all critical areas and other clinical areas did not face any problem as they are all connected to generators. Senior doctors and other electrical staff posted in the hospital closely monitored the situation. With the intervention of the Chandigarh Administration, the electricity supply was restored at 5.00 am and since then it has been continuing. “As a precautionary measure to avoid overloading the generators and in the interest of patients’ safety, elective surgeries scheduled for today were postponed. The emergency and labour room were functional and we have another backup of generators,” said Dr Garg.

PGI monitoring power situation

All customers have been restored as of 7:50 p.m., according to a Con Edison spokeswoman.

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- A power outage spanning across multiple North and East Shore neighborhoods Sunday evening was caused by a defective underground cable that sparked a manhole fire, according to Con Edison.

Nearly 5,000 customers were without power as of 6:45 p.m.; however, the vast majority of those homes had power restored by 7:35 p.m., said company spokeswoman Alina Suriel. Around 1,200 homes remained without power at that time but were expected to be restored by 8 p.m.

The outage primarily affected Sunnyside and portions of West Brighton and Castleton Corners, the Con Edison outage map showed. Sections of Emerson Hill, Grasmere and Silver Lake were also affected, the map indicated.

DOZENS of households and businesses have been left without power since 11.30pm last night.

Residents took  to social media to report the power outage by SSE after their homes were affected last night (February 13).

The power outage is believed to have started at around 3am.

One resident got in touch to say several business are closed including Boots and a cafe.

Most parts of Srikakulam, Vizianagaram, Visakhapatnam, East and West Godavari districts falling under the limits of AP Eastern Power Distribution Company Limited (APEPDCL) suffered a power outage on Thursday. Due to power failure in over 36 substation areas, many rural pockets suffered an outage that lasted for three to five hours. Though the electricity supply was restored in some areas after evening, the exact reason for the disruption could not be known immediately.

The discom’s mandal-wise feeder interruption report, which gives real-time data of the power outage, showed some mandals in Srikakulam district remained power-less for nearly 15 hours.East Godavari saw disruption in the supply since the morning. “Power supply was restored only after 9 pm and there was no proper response from the department officials on the reason for the outage,’’ K Subramanyam, a resident of Sarpavaram near Kakinada, said. An assistant engineer in Kakinada city circle said there was no problem at the sub-station level and interruption in the supply was from the headquarters itself.

DEGROWTH: LIBERATION FROM GROWTHISM and RETHINKING ECONOMIES | Jason Hickel | thetaxcast.com

Excerpted from podcast found at: https://www.thetaxcast.com/degrowth-liberation-from-growthism-114/ The Taxcast, transcript for the September 2021 edition: Degrowth and liberation from ‘growthism.’ Naomi: “…. I’m really happy to speak with Jason Hickel today, Economic anthropologist and author of The Divide, and Less Is More. We’re going to talk about degrowth, and liberating ourselves from…

Growthism: its ecological, economic and ethical limits | Herman Daly | real-world economics review

Reproduced from: http://www.paecon.net/PAEReview/issue87/Daly87.pdf

Growthism: its ecological, economic and ethical limits

Herman Daly [University of Maryland, USA]

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