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MARCH 2 2025

When Darkness Fell on UCH Ibadan

JOHN ERIOMALA•MARCH 2 2025

When Darkness Fell on UCH Ibadan

By 06 February 2025, the University College Hospital in Ibadan had been in a blackout for 97 days. ‘Surgeries are on hold. Patients are dying. And in the best teaching hospital in Nigeria, it is just another Thursday,’ John Eriomala, a medical student, reported from the dark.

When Darkness Fell on UCH Ibadan

JOHN ERIOMALA•MARCH 2 2025

When Darkness Fell on UCH Ibadan

By 06 February 2025, the University College Hospital in Ibadan had been in a blackout for 97 days. ‘Surgeries are on hold. Patients are dying. And in the best teaching hospital in Nigeria, it is just another Thursday,’ John Eriomala, a medical student, reported from the dark.