The Electricity Company of Ghana  gives 91 hospitals 72 hours to settle debts or be disconnected

 

 

 

The Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) has issued demand notices to hospitals with outstanding bills, warning of disconnection from the national grid if payment is not made within 72 hours.

A total of 91 health facilities across the country are in debt to the ECG, with a combined outstanding amount of GH¢261 million.

Several prominent hospitals, such as the Korle Bu Teaching Hospital, the 37 Military Hospital, and Ridge Hospital in the Greater Accra region, Komfo Anokye and Manhyia Government Hospitals in the Ashanti region, Ho Teaching Hospital in the Volta region, and Kibi Government Hospital in the Eastern region, are among those facing potential disconnection.

This action is part of ECG’s broader strategy to recover customer debts and bolster its operational capacity.

In an Eyewitness News interview with Selorm Adonoo on Citi FM on Tuesday, Ashanti Region ECG’s Communications Manager, Grace Garshong, stated that this was the company’s final option.

She noted that the company had regularly issued these facilities with their bills and communicated with them, but they had still not settled their debts.

“We have now given them demand notice after they have received their bills for some time. And it is after 72 hours that if they do not pay we will do the disconnection. …This is almost like the last resort before disconnection. We’ve spoken to them; they have received several bills already and on our bills, we give a time that you will have to come and pay, and they haven’t.”

“That is why we didn’t even go ahead to disconnect them outright, but we have given them the demand notice so that at least it will give them the 72 hours respite before we take any action…If they don’t come at all, that is when the last resort, we be the disconnection.”

 

 

Yaovi AGBEGNIGAN

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