Primary Healthcare Centres (PHCs) are still the people’s first port of call for medical services. Women and children, whose health determines a country’s fate, are the key consumers of primary healthcare centers, which implies they (the PHCs) must provide high-quality care.
In Africa, health facilities lack reliable electricity to improve their healthcare delivery. Due to unreliable power supply, a diesel-powered solution is a primary source of power supply. This negatively impacts patients and the environment and has been a burden on their operational budgets.
The solution to our primary healthcare facilities’ unreliable, costly, and insecure power supply is a change in the energy system, with the goal of improving and enhancing the quality of healthcare delivery services. It is assumed that greater energy sources will result in better healthcare services. The solution was offered as a solar-powered system with battery storage, and simulation results show that, aside from the initial investment cost, the solar PV generator outperforms the diesel generator in terms of life cycle costs and cost per unit energy. Both the life cycle cost and the cost of energy have decreased by 75%.
The environmental analysis implies that the solar PV energy system has the potential to avoid the 9371 kg of carbon dioxide if the system is implemented in the future at KPHC. The proposed powered system will supply electricity for the laboratory equipment (centrifuges, microscopes, blood chemical analyzer, hematology analyzer, CD4 machine), vaccine-refrigeration, general purpose refrigerator, computer, and telecommunications while being able to cater to a greater number of patients than in the past.
One of the keys to enhancing public health is improved energy generation and management, and one of the methods to limit rising costs in this public health environment is to minimize energy costs by switching to a new energy system. The notion of change is that providing reliable energy to the health center will result in better health.
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