Rain Leaves Children’s Ward Of Enugu University Teaching Hospital Flooded, Soaks Through Beds Over Leaky Roof

The children’s ward in the Enugu State University Teaching Hospital, ESUT-Parklane on Thursday experienced an embarrassing leakage during a downpour.

 

SaharaReporters gathered that rainwater leaked into the ward through leaky roofs.

 

Videos of the incident obtained by SaharaReporters from a source in the hospital as captured at about 3:30 pm on Thursday, show as some of the rainwater was collected with buckets.

 

The source told one of our reporters that the rainwater leaked on beds and tables where patients’ drugs were kept.

 

According to the source, some of the patients’ relations used buckets to collect the water, to prevent their belongings from getting wet.

 

Describing the situation in the ward as pitiable, the source also noted that sinks and basins in the children’s ward were bad.

“Today, mothers left their sick babies to search for water. They left their babies to look for where they could get hot water to bathe because there was no water heater in the ward and at the children’s emergency unit.”

 

The source described the toilet and bathroom in the ward as a germs-infested area that can worsen the ailments of the young patients.

 

Efforts made by SaharaReporters to get the reaction of the hospital management were unsuccessful as the Chief Medical Director of ESUT-Parklane, Prof Hyacinth Onah when contacted on the telephone did not answer his calls nor reply to a text message sent to his mobile phone.