27/03/2024
A Baby Dies As A Result of Dumsor
Adam Alhaj Jabril
An incubator baby has been reported killed after lights went out Tuesday night at the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) at the Tema General Hospital.
According to reports, one baby was lost due to the ‘dumsor’, which happened for about 4 hours between 8pm Tuesday and midnight Wednesday.
On Tuesday night, a distraught mother at the NICU shared a video showing the unit hit by dumsor.
Her video showed babies lying down in their incubators without oxygen to breathe due to the power outage taking out necessary equipments.
Meanwhile Ghanaians have asked Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) to issue a timetable for the light disruption.
But in a response, the Energy Minister, Mathew Opoku Prempeh has refuted the claim that the current power outage is equal to Dumsor which happened during Mahama's era in 2014 to 2016.