Students Want Hospital Connected To National Grid

Medical students of the Delta State University have called for the linking of the University Teaching Hospital, Oghara, to the national grid to protect installed facilities.

They said on Saturday in Oghara that the hospital had sophisticated equipment and that it should not be allowed to depend only on its own power generation for its operations.

The students described the hospital, which was inaugurated on Saturday by President Goodluck Jonathan, as “world class’’ and commended the state government for bringing Nigerian medical experts in the Diaspora to work in it.

“The hospital is simply magnificent and sophisticated in terms of size, equipment and personnel”, Mr. Oghenerumu Ijderhe, one of the students, said.

He said that there was no way the hospital could survive by depending only on its own-generated power, adding that it needed additional power from the national grid to save its equipment”.