Westbury clinic forced to move vaccines after criminals cause power outage
In a separate incident‚ the Protea South clinic in Soweto also experienced a blackout caused by illegal connections
Westbury clinic was without electricity after the main cable to the facility was tampered with in a suspected criminal act. "The clinic’s operational manager said he heard a loud bang in the afternoon and also noticed smoke coming from the same area. An unknown man was seen running out of the building and climbing over the recently erected wall‚" the City of Johannesburg said in a statement. According to the city‚ patients were evacuated as a precaution. "The generator that serves as a back-up could not be switched on because of the extent of the damage to the main power cable‚" the city added. Services at the clinic have been temporarily disrupted and vaccines moved to a nearby clinic for storage. In a separate incident‚ the Protea South clinic in Soweto also experienced a blackout caused by illegal connections. According to the city‚ community members who live near the clinic use the facility’s power generator to connect electricity to their houses. "It is concerning that our clin...
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