flash_on Load shedding study
Oct 17, 2018
As a final year medical student in 2015 I was working in the Red Cross War Memorial Children’s hospital in Cape Town, South Africa. I was surprised of the recurrent power shut downs called load shedding. I suspected a connection between load shedding and hospital admissions since I realized that some admitted patients had injuries that were obviously related to the lack of power (e.g. burns).
After several iterations, and a lot of work of Michael Schomaker as the statistician, three years later we finally published our results of the influence of load shedding on hospital admissions.…
