The woman is fortunate to be alive after “NEPA” took light while she was undergoing surgery in a hospital in Umuahia.
Blessing Nwobodo, a writer, said she found a lump in her breast and was advised to remove it even though it wasn’t cancerous.
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She said;
The government hospital in Abia state was on strike, so i went to a private hospital in Umuahia.
During surgery, i was on local anesthesia and was conscious. Midway through the surgery, “NEPA took light”.
The doctor performing the surgery ran out and asked my aunt to call someone named Ifeanyi to put on the generator. Ifeanyi returned, saying there was no fuel.
A nurse came in with a torchlight which the doctor used for the surgery until power was restored.
I was singing Rihanna’s Please “Don’t Stop The Music” and also staring at the ceiling while everything was unfolding
She further said
My experience made me want to curse Nigeria, but i realized “the country is already cursed.