"Energy poverty has left more than one billion people in developing countries without access to adequate health care, with staff forced to treat emergency patients in the dark, and health centers lacking the power they need to store vaccines or sterilize medical supplies, according to ... this year's Poor People's Energy Outlook (.pdf), published on Wednesday by the [non-governmental organization] Practical Action," the Guardian reports. "Even where health centers have access to power, frequent power shortages significantly hamper the ability to provide quality care, it says," the newspaper writes, and provides examples.