No Nigerian Should Die From Hospital Power Cuts – Tinubu

President Bola Tinubu has reaffirmed his administration’s propulsion to present reliable powerfulness proviso to Nigeria’s wellness facilities, saying nary national should dice due to the fact that energy fails successful theatres, ICUs oregon exigency rooms.

He spoke astatine the National Stakeholders’ Dialogue connected Power successful the Health Sector held astatine Ladi Kwali Hall, Continental Hotel, Abuja.

The president, represented by the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Sen. George Akume, said the national authorities is advancing sustainable, decentralised vigor for hospitals nationwide.

“Today, we look a pressing contented that affects each Nigerian: the persistent powerfulness proviso situation successful our tertiary hospitals and nationalist wellness institutions… powerfulness outages excessively often compromise safety, interrupt care, and outgo lives,” Tinubu said successful a connection by Special Adviser connected Media and Publicity to the SGF, Yomi Odunuga.

“These outages cannot continue, and nether our administration, they should not. Lives are astatine stake. We indispensable enactment now.”

The president said the determination is portion of a broader health-sector overhaul nether the Renewed Hope Agenda, targeting “hydra-headed” constraints that inflate costs and degrade care.

“My medication is afloat committed to the translation of our wellness assemblage by targeting innovative solutions… including the sub-optimal, inefficient and often uneconomical energy proviso that drives up the outgo of services, disrupts care, compromises prime and increases diligent dissatisfaction,” helium said.

Tinubu stressed that the involution aligns with ongoing nationalist vigor reforms. “Through the Energy Transition Plan and our Power Sector Reform initiatives, we are gathering a robust instauration for cleaner, much resilient, and much decentralised vigor transportation systems crossed Nigeria. These efforts are profoundly rooted successful the principles of sustainability, innovation, and inclusivity,” helium noted.

Outlining adjacent steps, the president said the authorities is expanding off-grid star and hybrid systems for captious nationalist infrastructure, creating incentives for backstage information done supportive regulations and fiscal measures, promoting public-private partnerships to thrust deployment, and leveraging blended concern to pull improvement partners, planetary financiers and section capital.

He assured investors that Nigeria is unfastened for health, vigor and infrastructure business. “We volition make the enabling situation for instrumentality connected concern and spouse with credible investors successful renewable and hybrid vigor systems,” Tinubu said, describing the stakeholders’ dialog arsenic a launching pad for collaborative action, strategical alignment and shared work successful powering wellness institutions.

“This inaugural to beforehand vigor solutions successful our hospitals is not an isolated intervention,” helium added. “It is an integral portion of our strategical absorption to code vigor poorness by decentralising and deploying tailor-made solutions and promoting backstage assemblage participation.”