Pakistan power outage: Hospitals on generators after grid failure caused by ‘large voltage swing’

Patients were seen crowding outside a hospital run on generators in Pakistan’s commercial capital Karachi on Monday after the country was hit by a nation-wide power cut due to a major breakdown in its national grid. The outage was caused by a large voltage surge in the south of the grid, which affected the entire network, according to the power ministry.

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