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Blackout: Mixed reactions as UCH cries out over debt burden

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Some Nigerians have expressed mixed feelings over the current situation at the University College Hospital, UCH, Ibadan. This is as the hospital has cried out for help, saying it was overburdened by the financial challenges. It also blamed the high debt burden on successive administrations, who left unpaid electricity bills to the tune of N328m.

DAILY POST reports that UCH, which was commissioned on 20th November, 1957, is the first teaching hospital in the country. The tertiary health institution is currently in total darkness after it was disconnected from the national grid by Ibadan Electricity Distribution Company on Tuesday, 19th March, 2024. Those who spoke with DAILY POST described the situation as worrisome, with some of them querying what the hospital was doing with the money being generated daily.

Akindele, called for an enquiry to ascertain why the hospital was owing such an amount of money. He added that members of the public should ask the management of the hospital why it was owing the electricity distribution company. 'If small private healthcare businesses can power their offices, you journalists should investigate what UCH does with the revenue it generates,' he declared.

 

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