Prof. Wasiu Adeyemo, Chief Medical Director, Lagos University Teaching Hospital (LUTH) has revealed that electricity bill is becoming back-breaking on the hospital management.
This was disclosed during a press conference to make one year since he assumed office.
However, he disclosed the plans of the hospital’s management to explore a fall-back source of power supply, especially solar power to reduce the bill.
“The second issue which is biting very hard on all the hospitals including LUTH, you know in the last six years we had uninterrupted power but the bill is becoming burdensome.”
“We have cried to the federal government and help is near I believe. However, we need to diversify. We have abandoned the natural sunlight that we all have and as a management many of our facilities are going to be equipped with solar power and I can assure that all the new structures that are coming up in LUTH, we are not going to commission them until we have Solar power as additional power source,” he said.
He reiterated the commitment of the management under him to execute the mandate of the federal government by upgrading the country’s health care and Promoting Medical Industrialisation.
“The present administration of LUTH under my leadership will continue to partner with the leadership of the FMOH&SW and contribute our own quota towards achieving the laudable 4- point agenda,” he said.
Speaking further, he expressed concern over the institution’s lack of research which according to him is a major issue affecting staff of the hospital. However, he said that the management has established a research grants committee for resident doctors for part II research projects.
“LUTH management established a Research Grants Committee for Resident Doctors for part II research projects. Efforts are ongoing to establish a Research Foundation to enhance the research capacity of the institution.
“To increase capacity of staff especially in relation to training and research, the management has a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Organizations within and outside the country,” he said.