Medical students protest over 106 days of power outage in UCH Ibadan
Clinical students of the University of Ibadan College of Medicine on Monday laid siege to the visit of Minister of Power, Adebayo Adelabu, to the University College Hospital (UCH), to protest a power outage.
The students expressed their grievances, saying they were tired of the over 100-day power outage at UCH.
The Minister of Power, Bayo Adelabu, and the 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 find a solution to the outage, which, they said, had disrupted their academic and clinical activities.
The student union president, Bolaji Aweda, said the students demanded immediate power restoration to UCH.
According to him, the 50 per cent waiver the government promised to tertiary healthcare institutions should be implemented.
The students also requested an urgent reformation of the health sector, among others.
In his response, the minister assured that the government and the UCH management team would look into the real issues and causes of the power outage.
Mr Adelabu promised to proffer a permanent solution and that IBEDC would soon reconnect the institution.
IBEDC disconnected UCH from the national grid on October 27 due to accumulated debts.
(NAN)
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