Posted on Mar 23, 2020
Power outage and lack of clinical staff have crippled activities at the University of Uyo Teaching Hospital (UUTH) in Akwa Ibom State.
Chief Medical Officer of the UUTH, Dr. EmemAbasi Bassey, said in an interaction with reporters on Monday .
He stated that the situation has hindered the expected output from the hospital.
He added that shortage of clinical staff have taken a toll on few available ones noting that its high time the concerned authorities employed doctors and nurses to the hospital.
He regretted that the hospital has been subjected to run diesel 24 hours since there are patients on Intensive Care Unit, who need uninterrupted power supply saying that, for the past two months they have not had power up to 20 hours cumulatively.
According to him: “The greatest challenge we have in this hospital is power. We run 24 hours on diesel, over two years we were not connected with PHEDC, even when we eventually did last two months, we’ve never had up to 20hours of power cumulatively.
“Due to constant running of our generators, wear and tear had set in as our 1000KVA generator that powered the entire hospital has broken down, and we need about N10-12million to fix the crankshaft, which is the engine of the generating set.