KARACHI, Jan 22: The Private Hospitals and Clinics Association has urged KESC to reduce power tariff for hospitals and clinics for their being emergency health care service providers.

A meeting of the association chaired by Dr Mohammad Ali Shah observed that hospitals and clinics were in one way or the other worked on a charity/no profit, no loss basis, whereas the KESC placed them in the category of commercial organisations. “How pity is it that the KESC tariff for an ice factory is also lower than the tariff for health care centres,” said a communication of the association.

The association suggested to the KESC to fix the electricity tariff for hospitals and clinics somewhere between ‘residential’ and ‘commercial’ categories of its consumers.