- Adelabu brokers peace between UCH, IBEDC
Students of the University of Ibadan College of Medicine yesterday stormed the University College Hospital (UCH), Ibadan, protesting the prolonged power outage at the hospital.
The students expressed their grievances, saying they were tired of the over 100-day power outage at UCH.
News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the Minister of Power, Chief Bayo Adelabu, and Ibadan Electricity Distribution Company (IBEDC) management were at UCH over the lingering power outage during the protest.
The students displayed placards with inscriptions such as “We are tired of 100 days of darkness; Save UCH” among others.
They insisted the minister must bring solutions to the outage, which, they said, had been disrupting their academic and clinical activities.
The Student Union President, Bolaji Aweda, said the union demanded immediate restoration of power to UCH.
According to him, the students also demanded that the 50 per cent waiver the government promised to tertiary health care facilities be implemented.
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They also requested an urgent reformation of the health sector, among others.
The minister said the government and the UCH management team would look into the real issues and causes of the power outage.
He promised to proffer a permanent solution to the situation, saying the institution would soon be reconnected by IBEDC.
NAN recalls IBEDC disconnected UCH from the national grid on October 27 last year due to accumulated debts.