Severe thunderstorms hit the Central African capital last weekend and knocked down several pylons that connect the only power plant to the city. As a result, more electricity, difficulties in accessing water … A particularly uncertain situation, but which should be improved in the next few days.
Reached by telephone on Friday, April 30, at the end of the day, the Central African Minister of Energy, Herbert Djono Ahaba, assured us that the main power supply route to the city had been used again the same day, in the beginning. in the afternoon.
According to him, these works, carried out by the Central African energy company Enerca, have made it possible to restore 70% of the electricity supply.
At the hospital, where several people died because they could not use the fans, there was a slight improvement on Friday night, without noticing that it was normal.
In addition to the deaths, the cuts had catastrophic consequences for the care of the sick, according to a humanitarian source: extinguishing maternity wards, breaking the cold chain for certain drugs, unnecessary activities interrupted …
Hospitals had to spend the money set aside to buy drugs to buy diesel, when donations of gasoline to power the generators were not sufficient.
If the minister assures that precautionary measures have been taken to prevent such a catastrophe from happening again, MP Martin Ziguelé assures him that Enerca’s economy does not guarantee access to electricity for Central Africans.
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