Liberia, April 20 -- Suakoko, Bong County - Phebe hospital in Suakoko, Bong County has gone without electricity for almost one week, putting patients' lives at risks.
The referral hospital in central Liberia relies on
generators to power emergency and critical wards such as the Maternal and
Intensive Care Unit (ITU).
Patients for the past week have had to depend on lighting candles
and other torches to provide light for wards where there were no small standby generators.
Dormitories hosting staffs and students of the Phebe Nursing
School have not been spared the pitch black darkness.
The Medical Director of Phebe Hospital, Dr. Jefferson Sibley,
said he has been so preoccupied with finding fuel to keep the lights on that he
hasn't ...