ABUTH announces transition to renewable energy

Prof. Ahmed Hamidu, the Chief Medical Director (CMD) of Ahmadu Bello University Teaching Hospital (ABUTH), Shika, Kaduna State, has announced the hospital’s planned modulation to renewable energy.

He revealed this successful an interrogation with journalists successful his bureau successful Zaria connected Monday, expressing interest that “the facility’s monthly energy depletion of N75 cardinal is unsustainable.

He stated each of the captious departments and portion blocks astatine the infirmary would request to gradually transit to renewable vigor sources implicit time.
According to him, the hospital’s top situation is energy.

He explained that “last year, we paid astir ₦240 cardinal arsenic outstanding outgo to Kaduna Electric. By the extremity of the year, it accumulated to implicit ₦200 cardinal again.
“And owed to the existent summation successful the vigor tariff, past period alone, we paid ₦25 million, but the latest measure brought to america was ₦75 million.

“Additionally, we spent ₦47 cardinal connected diesel past month. So, erstwhile you adhd everything, we’re talking astir implicit ₦100 cardinal per period for energy, which is not sustainable.

“We are profoundly acrophobic and don’t cognize wherever to get the money. Even if we usage each the funds disposable successful the infirmary to wage for energy, it wouldn’t beryllium enough.”

The CMD, however, said that contempt challenges astatine the facility, it would not summation charges for services.

He stressed that “we cannot rise the outgo of services oregon wellness inquiries owed to our existent challenges and our determination successful Zaria, which is simply a civilian work town.

“Increasing the outgo of services is not an enactment due to the fact that patients would halt coming, and we cannot unopen the hospital.

“If you were present successful 2019 erstwhile I became the CMD, you wouldn’t person been capable to beryllium successful this bureau owed to the authorities of the hospital.

“The occupation is that the infirmary has been nether operation for adjacent to 40 years, and immoderate facilities and buildings are deteriorating.”

The infirmary brag appealed to authorities for assistance, saying “We person exhausted each our funds, including those from patients who wage for services and different consumables.