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Powerless: Midwife Gloria Garbor with a baby delivered at a clinic in Banki, Nigeria. The country’s power crisis puts vulnerable patients, such as premature babies, at risk. Photo: Lynsey Addario/Getty Images

Nigerian hospitals are operating in the dark amid chronic blackouts

A fraction of Nigeria’s power grid is working and hospitals need generators to keep up vital work and life-saving operations. But often these are not enough

  • The Continent
  • Tijani Abdulkabeer
  • Olayide Oluwafunmilayo Soaga
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