The Charlotte Maxeke Academic Hospital and four other health facilities are affected by the electrical outage in Johannesburg. (Alfonso Nqunjana/News24)
City Power does not know when it will complete repairs to a substation after an outage disrupted supply to several areas, affecting at least three major health facilities in the Johannesburg CBD.
The entity says it is on site and working to fix the outage.
The outage was reported at around 11:00 on Sunday when the Ridge substation tripped.
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