Many areas of Karachi remain without power till Sunday evening
Karachi
January 11, 2021
After the countrywide power breakdown on Saturday night, some parts of Karachi remained deprived of power till Sunday evening as efforts to restore power continued.
Power could not be restored to many areas such as Nazimabad, North Nazimabad, North Karachi, Surjani Town and some parts of District East and District South till the evening.
The city’s sole power supplier, K-Electric (KE), said in a statement that the countrywide power breakdown on account of national grid outage cascaded to the KE network and affected Karachi’s power supply as well.
January 11, 2021
ISLAMABAD/LAHORE/KARACHI: The National Transmission and Dispatch Company (NTDC) has constituted a four-member inquiry committee to look into facts/causes of collapse of power system late Saturday night, which plunged most of the country into dark.
According to the NTDC notification, the committee includes GM North Malik Javeed Mehmood, GM technical NTDC Ghulam Abbas Memon, CE NTDC Atif Mujeeb Usmani and Chief Engineer (Network) NPCC Sajjad Akhtar.
Malik Javed Mehmood would be convener of the committee, while the other three would be its members.
The committee would probe into reasons/facts leading to collapse of the power system.
Karachi
December 24, 2020
Presiding over a meeting on gas shortage on Wednesday, Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah has directed the energy department to prepare the provinceâs case under Article 158 of the constitution so he could take it up with the federal government.
The meeting was attended by Sindh Energy Minister Imtiaz Shaikh, Principal Secretary to CM Sajid Jamal Abro and Secretary Energy Tariq Shah. The chief minister said the constitution guaranteed the provision of natural gas to the people of the province from where it was being extracted.
âWhen the constitution guarantees this right then how the federal government could deprive the people of Sindh of the gas being extracted from here,â he said.
Pechuho admits lack of ICUs, HDUs
Sindh energy minister holds Centre responsible for gas crisis as PA session ends amid ruckus
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KARACHI:
Sindh Health Minister Dr Azra Fazl Pechuho admitted on Tuesday that the province is facing a shortage of healthcare resources and facilities, intensive care units (ICUs) and high-dependency units (ICUs), ambulances and trained staff.
Replying to questions during a Sindh Assembly session, Pechuho said that ventilators reserved for Covid-19 patients are available mostly in Hyderabad and Karachi, and a lack of resources made it difficult to set up ICUs, other than those for housing coronavirus patients, elsewhere in the province.