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Authorities hope to install new transformer today
6 June 2015, 18:00 PM
UPDATED 7 June 2015, 01:31 AM
CITY
Staff Correspondent, Ctg
In the sweltering summer.jpg
In the sweltering summer, sufferings of patients multiplied at Chittagong Medical College Hospital with all ceiling fans, except in a few places, having stopped moving since Thursday noon when the hospital's transformer exploded. Electricity supply was not restored till yesterday. The photo was taken at the cardiology ward. Photo: Anurup Kanti Das

Misery of patients at Chittagong Medical College Hospital (CMCH) continued for the third day yesterday, as the authorities have failed to repair the 60-year-old transformer which exploded on Thursday leaving most of the wards without power.

Only the emergency unit, operation theatre and ICU are being provided with electricity through generators and an alternative power supply, said CMCH sources.

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CMCH Director Brig Gen Khondakar Shahidul Ghani said they hope to install a new generator of 2,000KV by today.

Most of the patients had to go home without receiving treatment. One Nurjahan Begum could not get an echocardiogram done.

The dialysis and the pathology units were inactive too. Moreover, heat and a water crisis increased patients' sufferings by manifold.
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