Residents of Teshie and Nungua have expressed concern over the ongoing power outages, commonly known as “dumsor,” citing its growing impact on businesses and daily life.

Speaking to GhanaWeb’s Patience Adu, residents said the outages occur without prior notice or a reliable schedule, making it difficult to plan their activities.

They also pointed to frequent transformer overloads in the area as a contributing factor to the recurring power cuts.

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“For about two years now they keep telling us that the transformer is overloaded, yet they have not made any move to off-load it,” a resident complained.

Business owners, including pharmacists, said the situation is affecting their operations, particularly the storage of temperature-sensitive medicines.

“Currently, I would say it affects the temperature that we actually have to keep in the store and it affects the medicines that we have here. We actually need the light all the time to keep them at the required temperature,” a pharmacist said.

Printing press operators also reported disruptions, saying the outages slow down productivity.

“When there’s no light, I can’t print and it slows down business. But I don’t lose anything like other businesses, so I’d say I am on the safer side,” one operator noted.

Street hawkers, particularly those selling water and soft drinks, said they have also been hard hit, with sales dropping due to the lack of refrigeration.

“The dumsor is really affecting us. The light goes off unannounced, so the water doesn’t get cold and we don’t get ice to cool it. It’s really slowing down business,” a vendor lamented.

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