KEDCO Restores Power Supply To Aminu Kano Teaching Hospital

The Kano Electricity Distribution Company (KEDCO) said it has restored powerfulness proviso to the Aminu Kano Teaching Hospital (AKTH) successful Kano.

Spokesman of the DisCo, Sani Bala Sani, successful a connection shared with LEADERSHIP, provided clarification connected the alleged disconnection of energy proviso to the tertiary wellness facility, which was said to person led to nonaccomplishment of lives.

According to him, “I privation to clarify that energy proviso to AKTH has since been restored. The incidental arose from an ongoing process to abstracted the main infirmary field and wellness facilities from the unit residential complex. The main field and wellness facilities are connected to the top-priority 33kV Zaria Road feeder, enjoying an mean of 22 hours of regular proviso nether Band A services.”

Sani added that AKTH absorption has continued to importune that unit residential homes remained connected the aforesaid feeder arsenic the captious infirmary facilities.

This, according to him, has posed repeated risks to the stableness and reliability of the hospital’s dedicated powerfulness supply.

“Several attempts by KEDCO to abstracted the residential homes from the wellness facilities were unsuccessful owed to the management’s resistance. Unfortunately, this led to a terrible fault, which caused the caller outage we person consistently sought to prevent,” helium explained.

To safeguard uninterrupted powerfulness to the hospital, KEDCO proceeded with the separation of the 2 proviso lines, saying the measurement was indispensable to warrant reliability, safety, and improved prime of work to the hospital.

Sani further noted that nary outgo has been made for the energy consumed astatine the residential complex, contempt its antagonistic interaction connected some the prime of proviso and KEDCO’s economical sustainability.

In a missive dated August 12, 2025, KEDCO’s Chief Commercial Officer, Muhammad Aminu Dantata, notified the Chief Medical Director of AKTH of the planned withdrawal of energy services from the unit quarters and non-essential areas of the infirmary owed to partial colony of monthly energy bills, the connection added.

The missive highlighted that: “Despite repeated appeals, the infirmary continues to marque lone partial monthly payments.

“This has resulted successful an outstanding energy liability of ₦949,880,922.45 (Nine Hundred and Forty-Nine Million, Eight Hundred and Eighty Thousand, Nine Hundred and Twenty-Two Naira, Forty-Five Kobo Only) arsenic of August 2025.

“The infirmary was requested to settee its August 2025 measure of ₦108,957,582.29 (One Hundred and Eight Million, Nine Hundred and Fifty-Seven Thousand, Five Hundred and Eighty-Two Naira, Twenty-Nine Kobo Only) successful afloat wrong 10 moving days to debar work withdrawal from the affected locations.”

KEDCO said it remained afloat committed to providing uninterrupted energy to AKTH arsenic a foremost wellness instauration portion ensuring the integrity of its operations. “We truthful entreaty to the hospital’s absorption to cooperate with the ongoing separation exercise, which is successful the champion involvement of patients, staff, and the wider public.”

“We guarantee the radical of Kano State and the wide nationalist that KEDCO volition proceed to prioritise energy proviso to wellness facilities, particularly those delivering captious and lifesaving services,” Sani added.