Power has been restored to the University College Hospital in Ibadan, Oyo State, UCH, after sixteen days of disconnection by the Ibadan Electricity Distribution Company for owing N495 Million.

Reporters who visited the hospital observed that electricity had been fully restored, noting that there was power supply in departments like Family Medicine, Emergency, Nursing, Engineering, and Pharmacology, among others.

A source within the institution told reporters that the hospital paid part of the N495m debt before electricity was restored.

The source revealed that the hospital also signed an agreement with the electricity distribution company on how to repay the outstanding debt.

IBEDC disconnected the facility on March 19, for the third time in less than two months, over what it called “accumulated bill indebtedness.”

While giving reasons for the disconnection, the Ibadan DisCo explained that it disconnected the hospital after failed attempts to engage with the facility’s management regarding the N495m debt, which had persisted for over six years.

The Joint Action Committee, an umbrella body of all unions in the hospital, on Tuesday, April 2, issued a notice that staff would only work between 8am and 4pm due to power outage.

The JAC Chairman, Oludayo Olabampe, lamented that the health workers had been working without electricity since March 19 and could not continue that way. #