By Alaba Olusola Oke
The Office of the Public Utilities ( OPU) in Ondo State says it has concluded plans to power the 23 general hospitals in the state with solar energy.
Administrative Secretary of the OPU, Princess Abike Bayo-Ilawole, stated this during a meeting with heads of general hospitals and other major stakeholders on alternative energy for the state-owned hospitals on Monday in Akure.
“The Office of the Public Utilities, observed that this post-fuel subsidy removal era, people want to find ways of making things easy for themselves and the state government wants to make life easy for people.
“So, the state general hospitals have cancelled payment for hospitals registration cards and reduced some of the costs that may be putting agony on the citizens.
“ We are now looking at activities of the administrators of those facilities and we observed that the hospitals are always in the dark especially at night.
Even in the…
Source: News Agency of Nigeria
