Ludhiana, Feb. 11 -- The Punjab State Power Corporation Limited (PSPCL) has asked the civil hospital authorities to upgrade to auto-start generators after a technical glitch threw the district hospital into darkness for a brief period on Sunday evening. The power snapped at the hospital around 8 pm and was only restored by 8:15 pm. As the hospital doesn't have auto-start generator, it stayed without electricity for some time when the staff scrambled to start the gensets.

The outage was due to a low frequency relay in the 66 kv line that supplies power to the hospital, according to PSPCL chief engineer Jagdev Singh Hans. Though the hospital is connected to the no-power cut line, the sudden increase in the demand during the evening hours r...