In a bid to ensure uninterrupted power supply and boost service operation, an Independent Power Plant with over 5.8MW capacity has been commissioned in the Lagos University Teaching Hospital (LUTH).
The Independent Power Plant is the first of its kind in any Federal Tertiary Hospital in the country sponsored by CET Power Projects Limited.
Uche Orji, the managing director (MD)/ Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Nigeria Sovereign Investment Authority commissioned Power Plant on behalf of President Muhammadu Buhari on February, 9 during the inauguration of the cancer treatment centre in LUTH.
According to Orji, under the stewardship of the president, we have also established, through Private-Public Partnership (PPP), the first Independent Power Plant. We are powering the entire LUTH community, ensuring 24 hours power supply.
“We are solving power problem; this is one of the ways of making our investment possible. And the bold steps of the president lead to the commissioning cancer treatment centre and the power plant,” Orji said.
CET Power provides out-sourced power to organisations with industrial-scale operations either on a short-term (EPP) basis, or on long-term (IPP) arrangements.
Speaking on the power plant, Tade Adeyeye, head business development, CET Power project Ltd said, the hospital cannot afford to have a world class cancer centre without electricity.
“since we provide power supply, we are giving encouragement to NSIA, Federal government embarking on this huge project, they invested millions of dollar in the cancer equipment and running it without power of this capacity will not achieve its purpose.”
“Power is a driving force when it comes to economy development so, if you are short of power, the economy will struggle because industries depend on the supply, I believe based on our peculiar nature as a nation, the solution is to look at small unit of power.”
“I want to appeal to the federal government, if they can make this work for LUTH; it can work for other teaching hospitals and to Nigerians in general. CET Power is open to doing more of this,” he added.
ANTHONIA OBOKOH
