The Chairman of the Committee of Chief Medical Directors of Federal Tertiary Institutions, Prof. Emem Bassey, has said the greatest challenge hospitals face in the country is lack or inadequate power supply.
“Hospitals that are not connected to the national grid depend on diesel. For instance, at the University of Uyo Teaching Hospital, Akwa Ibom, I spend a minimum of N10m on diesel weekly. The price of diesel has not changed much because the price has been deregulated ab initio. Anybody supplying diesel will have to make a profit, then you pay taxes, so we have to pay considerably a lot more for diesel.
“Now that petrol has been deregulated, and we run a fleet of cars and ambulances and all these things have affected our operational costs. The deregulation of petrol is good for the economy but the only thing is that it means that the operational costs are higher and this will be transmitted to the patients,” Bassey said.
The don said the challenge of power supply also affects health care service delivery across the country. “If you spend up to 70m on power in a month, how much do you generate? Without power, there will be limited services. In my hospital, you cannot put on the main generator until 10am and then you put it off by 4pm and put it on by 7pm again. In those intervals, it affects services, certain services cannot come on until the main generator comes on, so it is a major challenge.”All rights reserved.
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