Some health workers of the Tamale Teaching Hospital have threatened to lay down their tools in protest of what they described as refusal of staff of the Northern Electricity Distribution Company (NEDCo) to restore power to their bungalows.
THE CUSTODIAN Northern Regional Correspondent, Mohammed Gadafi, today Saturday, February 11, visited the quarters of the health workers and reports that perishable food items including fruits and frozen meat started to rot barely 48hours since the power interruption.
The frustrated health workers who include Doctors, Anesthetists among other frontline practitioners warned if the situation is not rectify as a matter of urgency, they will seize going to the hospital.
One of the victims, Gideon Asante, a Nurse Specialist residing in one of the quarters in an interview explained that the area experienced some fluctuations yesterday in the morning before eventually going off.
He disclosed however that the blackout was reported to authorities of NEDCo who promised to visit the community to fixed it but never showed up.
He said they visited the NEDCo offices to physically lay the complaint but none the staff was willing to attend to them until one of the workers opened up to tell them that they are unable to attend to them because they [NEDCo] are demanding the dismissal of their MD.
“We went there yesterday and they tossed us from office to office and nobody was ready to talk to us and we called some big people we know and all what they said was that the decision was a collective decision from management and they could not bypass that to come to our rescue.”
Staff of the Volta River Authority and Northern Electricity Distribution Company (VRA/NEDCo) earlier this week announced a partial withdrawal of their services across the five operational areas to demand the dismissal of the Managing Director of the company, Mr. Osman Aludiba Ayuba.
The disgruntled group accused the MD of failing to improve the revenue inflows of the company since he assumed office in 2019.
But the health workers would not understand why an internal issue of the company should affect the general public and for that matter innocent customers of the electricity distribution company.
“We’re salary workers and I buy things about GHS2,000 and over, stock in my deep freezer and I watch my things going bad and you say I should talk. I don’t what they’re doing with their MD but I have bought my lights, I have paid my taxes on it and my light goes off and you say because you’ve issues with your MD so I should be in darkness” he queried.
Another health worker, Mark Kweku Abobrah said there is insecurity in the community now as a result of the blackout.
“In fact, every now and then they are still us and during this weather we have to open our windows to let in fresh air. Three days ago, one of our administrators was robbed – he and his mother were in the room but they [robbers] managed to enter and rob them” another female worker cried out.
