He frowned at the huge debts recorded on the electricity consumed, saying, “No payment has been made for electricity consumed at the residential complex in spite of its negative impact on service delivery and KEDCO’s operations.”

He recalled that the KEDCO, in a letter signed by the Chief Commercial Officer, Mr Muhammad Aminu, had notified the AKTH of its plans to withdraw electricity services from staff quarters and non-essential areas due to partial settlement of bills.

He, however, assured the public that electricity supply to health facilities, especially those offering critical and life-saving services, would remain a top priority

He also assured that KEDCO remains committed to providing uninterrupted electricity to the hospital as a foremost health institution while appealing for its cooperation on the separation exercise.

Bala further explained that electricity had since been restored to the AKTH after an ongoing process to separate the main hospital campus and health facilities from the staff quarters and residential complex.

”The main campus and health facilities are connected to top-priority 33KVA Zaria Road feeder to enjoy average of 22 hours of daily supply under Band A services.

“However, the AKTH management has continued to insist that staff quarters and residential homes remain on the same feeder as hospital, and this has continued to pose repeated risks to the stability and reliability of supply,” he said.

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The head of corporate communication noted that several attempts to separate the two lines were unsuccessful due to management’s resistance and eventually resulted in a severe fault that caused the recent outage.

He added that to safeguard uninterrupted supply to the hospital, the company proceeded with the separation of the two supply lines.

Source: Punch

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