How Child on Oxygen Almost Died after Power Cut at Enugu Teaching Hospital

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Last Sunday at the Children Emergency Section of the Enugu State University Teaching Hospital, a child on emergency oxygen supply narrowly cheated death.

 

 Electricity supply to the section was suddenly interrupted, leaving the patient gasping for breath. Michael Eze, an American-based academic, who took a relative’s son to the hospital at the time, told PremiumTimes he was shocked that the hospital had no back-up electricity supply, thereby endangering the lives of kids on emergency treatment. 

“This is the disaster called Enugu state teaching hospital. There are children in the children emergency ward. Light just went off and there was no back up electricity, Worse still – one of the kids was on oxygen supply when the light went off.  

But this is not new, the children emergency ward has not had back up electricity for weeks. The sorry state of tonight event was watching nurses and doctors making desperate efforts to stabilize the kid on oxygen,”