UPTH Reacts To Report That 14 Babies Died Due To Power Outage | READ DETAILS

University of Port Harcourt Teaching Hospital (UPTH) has described reports that 14 babies died in its facility due to power outage, as false.

Over the weekend, there were reports that infants kept in incubators died and a surgical procedure abandoned owing to electricity power outage.

Reacting, the Acting Public Relations Officer, UPTH, Elabha Alexandra Meni, said in a statement;

Our attention has been drawn to a story of the fourteen (14) to Nineteen (19) babies dying in the hospital, this is not correct. Surgeries were never cancelled, and neither were our services disrupted.

“UPTH is a known centre for excellence, a citadel of training, research and health care delivery. The University of Port-Harcourt Teaching Hospital is an institution, where the world’s best medical standards are practised and maintained.

“This also has helped make the institution one of the best medical centres in the South-south and Nigeria at large.

“However, it is quite saddening that certain persons try to tarnish the image of the hospital by spreading false messages and information that are inaccurate.

“We did not record any infant mortality in our SCBU (inborn and outborn) as a result of our electrical power outage, due to faulty transformer, during which the standby generator serviced the hospital for the period, with all emergency areas fully powered. Surgeries were never cancelled, neither were our services disrupted”.

“The management of UPTH frowns seriously at such scandalous social media propaganda that is damaging its image. We want the general public to know that we remain committed in our service to humanity.”