Nigeria, Feb. 19 -- The Chief Medical Director of the University of Uyo Teaching Hospital, Emem Bassey, says the federal healthcare facility spends 40 per cent of its total revenue on settling electricity bills.

Mr Bassey, a professor, said the hospital has a huge backlog of debts to pay to its diesel suppliers.

"About 40 per cent of our total revenue right now goes to power. Almost all the money we make we have to pay power bills," said Mr Bassey on Friday in Uyo, Akwa Ibom State.

Mr Bassey, a former health commissioner in the state, stated this in his remark at the commissioning of the hospital's Antenatal Complex. The complex is named after the late Akwa Ibom First Lady, Patience Eno.

The Akwa Ibom State Governor, Umo Eno, and the ...