Sixteen days after the Ibadan Electricity Distribution Company disconnected University College Hospital in Ibadan, Oyo State, for owing N495m, power has been restored to the health facility.
Newsmen gathered that electricity was restored around 6.30 pm on Thursday.
IBEDC disconnected the facility on March 19, 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.
However, when our correspondent visited the hospital late Thursday, it was observed that electricity had been fully restored.
There was power supply in departments like Family Medicine, Emergency, Nursing, Engineering, and Pharmacology, among others.
A source within the institution told newsmen that the hospital paid part of the N495m debt before electricity was restored.
Punch / Arafat Ayofe
