The Jamaica Public Service Company, JPS, says 72 per cent of its customers have had their electricity restored.
According to the JPS, as at 7 am on Sunday, July 7, 500,151 of its 692,000 customers have now had their electricity restored.
JPS says 65 per cent, or 448,000 of its customers lost electricity supply due to the passage of Hurricane Beryl. It says just over 72,000 customers had their power supply restored last Saturday.
Meanwhile, JPS says electricity has been restored at 78 per cent of major hospitals and healthcare facilities across the island.
The University Hospital of the West Indies, Kingston Public Hospital, Victoria Jubilee Hospital and Bustamante Children’s Hospital are among those restored in St. Andrew.
In St. James, Cornwall Regional Hospital, St. James Children’s Hospital and Trinity Mall Medical are among those with electricity restored.
The Falmouth Hospital in Trelawny and Port Maria Hospital in St. Mary have also been reconnected to the JPS grid.
JPS says sections of the May Pen Hospital have had power restored. JPS also provided a list of the facilities it’s working to restore power to over the next 48 hours.
These are…
Linstead Hospital in St. Catherine, Annotto Bay Hospital in St. Mary, May Pen Hospital in Clarendon, Noel Holmes Hospital in Hanover, St. Ann’s Bay and Alexandria Community Hospital in St. Ann and Savanna-La-Mar Hospital in Westmoreland.
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