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A Tragic scene unfolded at Jummai Babangida Aliyu General Hospital in Minna after a man lost his wife during a surgery that was disrupted by a power outage and a failed backup generator.

The heartbroken husband, whose identity has not yet been made public, poured out his grief in a series of emotional posts on Facebook, sparking outrage and renewed conversations about the terrible state of healthcare in Nigeria.

“Inna lillahi wa inna ilayhi raji’un. Kasaa. I just lost my wife,” he wrote, his words heavy with pain.

According to him, the surgery had been going on for just 35 minutes when the hospital was thrown into darkness. The theater’s generator, which was supposed to serve as a backup, had no fuel.

Frantically, the hospital staff scrambled to find fuel. But even after refueling, the generator failed to come alive. A mechanic was called, but he reportedly had to travel to Ogbomosho in Minna to buy the parts needed to fix the generator. All this time, the man’s wife was still lying on the operating table, fighting for her life under the weak beam of flashlights and emergency lamps.

“One of the nurses told me not to worry,” he recalled, “she said the surgery was continuing with alternative lighting, like a lamp or flashlight. But how can you perform surgery properly in such conditions?”

An hour after the blackout, electricity was finally restored, but by then, the damage was already done. What should have been a 90-minute operation stretched dangerously from 4 p.m. until after 7 p.m.

At the end of it all, he lost his wife.

Many Nigerians have reacted with anger and heartbreak, calling for accountability and a total overhaul of public hospitals where avoidable tragedies like this have become all too common.

“How do you explain that in 2025, a general hospital in a state capital cannot guarantee basic power supply for surgery?” one commenter wrote on social media.

As of the time of this report, the management of Jummai Babangida Aliyu General Hospital has not issued any official statement regarding the incident.

The late woman’s family is now left grappling with a devastating loss — one that many believe could have been easily prevented.

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