Surgeries Postponed As Water Scarcity Hit UCH, Ibadan

A scarcity of water at the University College Hospital (UCH), Ibadan since last Saturday is causing the postponement of some surgeries, FIJ can report.

According to a source, the officials claim the water scarcity is due to some ongoing major repairs within the hospital, but the problem is now affecting patients’ access to healthcare.

In fact, surgeries are currently being postponed as a result of this development.

“I changed into alleged to be in theatre this week however the surgical treatment has now been postponed by means of two days due to this water disaster,” a affected person told FIJ.

“It is so awful that patients now buy sachets of water to wash and defecate.”

Water crises in UCH are frequent occurrences, although they occur in parts of the medical institution as opposed to the whole.

In November, journalist ‘Fisayo Soyombo tweeted approximately the water disaster in the medical institution. However, Toye Akinrinlola, Head of the Hospital’s Public Relations Department, subsequently denied the crisis at some stage in a telephone-in programme on TVC, notwithstanding the supply of video proof.

The improvement at the UCH comes after President Muhammadu Buhari launched into yet any other journey to the UK for a “habitual scientific take a look at-up”.

The smartphone quantity of Professor Jesse Otegbayo, Chief Medical Director of the Hospital, become unreachable as of press time, at the same time as Akinrinlola did now not solution his calls.