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Some patients and their families were seen protesting the unavailability of water and electricity at the University College Hospital in Ibadan, Oyo State.
The aggrieved protesters lamented that the Ibadan Electricity Distribution Company, IBEDC disconnected UCH’s power for 17 days.
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The disconnect is said to have affected vital hospital operations like delays in test results and surgeries, among others.
Reacting, the hospital management said the hospital falls under the “Band A” electricity tariff structure, which requires them to pay N80 million monthly.
In a viral video obtained by The Eastern Updates, some patients were heard saying: “UCH don’t kill us, we want light. You people want to destroy the prestige of UCH, it’s a premium hospital.”
The Eastern Updates had previously reported that the Edo State Governor, Godwin Obaseki on Wednesday said he has no regrets demolishing the Central Hospital building in Benin City for the construction of Museum of West African Art, MOWAA.
The Eastern Updates also reports that Obaseki made the disclosure at the commissioning of the remodelled Edo State College of Health Sciences and Technology, EDOCOHEST, Benin City.
He said in place of the demolished Central Hospital over 10 primary health centres have been constructed serving the citizens of the State.
According to him, it was COVID-19 that opened my eye to the state of healthcare in Edo State and Nigeria and what made me scared about COVID-19 was not the disease itself but our inability to respond to the pandemic.
“I was with a friend during COVID-19 and I said if something happened now, we can’t leave Nigeria with all the wealth and the planes that we have for treatment.
“The lesson I learned from COVID-19 is that we must build our own healthcare system and healthcare is not only about hospital, infrastructure not just the infrastructure you see when you are sick. Healthcare is a system.
