power

two weeks ago the generator at the hospital broke…that is what keeps things going when the power is cut or is too unstable to run the hospital equipment. This is not good. It would be out for 5 days to be fixed. And the medical director and deputy medical director were in Kenya for a conference…not that they necessarily have more pull with escom (power company) but maybe have more clout in calling in. but Natasha (dr from south Africa) was here and called escom to tell them the problem…people die when we don’t have any way of having power…it runs the oxygen machines and other essentials. The man on the phone said that she would have to write a letter (on letterhead) scan it and email it and he would get it to the person and see what would happen. I’d have to say that I wasn’t too optimistic but it worked (along with a meeting with the head guy by Mr. Veitch) and we had constant and good power for 10 days!! We didn’t want to tell them that the generator was back…(I don’t know what actually happened) but then on Saturday we had a normal 2 hour cut at dinner time…of course ute and I had planned on an oven-grilled fish dinner but we are easily changed…(as we didn’t have any choice).