Growing concern about power supply this winter This has put the UK’s national health system (NHS) on high alert, whose hospitals, as ‘The Guardian’ exclusively reveals, have contingency plans in place in the event of a power outage. According to the paper, many hospital centers, at least forty, have stepped up emergency fuel supplies and placed them emergency plan given the possibility that cold weather or problems with the Russian gas supply could lead to service interruption and harm to patients.
Currently, everything indicates that despite public health budget cuts, most hospitals have current plans and backup power generator They can operate for hours or days, as long as they have access to the diesel needed to operate, and if necessary, staff are also on hand to interrupt non-essential services to protect vulnerable patients, such as dialysis patients.
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Fears of power outages are increasing in the UK in the last few weeks 125,000 homes will be left without electricity in the heart of Paris, and Germany are carrying out drills and have warned that power outages could take up to an hour and a half.
The situation adds to concerns in the UK about the stress the public health system will be under in a winter marked by strikes in the health sector, which threaten to spiral into chaos, as groups such as nurses, ambulance workers and young doctors will stop. operating for several days, at a very challenging time of year for a hospital.
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