According to a report by BBC News, nurses in hospitals in Ghana have been reduced to delivering babies using mobile phones light.

The West African nation has suffered from power shortages for over three years forcing most hospitals to depend to diesel powered generators. But the burden of running this generators has most of the time left hospital without electricity for hours at a time.

As a result, midwives are compelled to rely on mobile light to carry out baby deliveries.

The power outages, which is the worst in the Ghana since independence, have been so common to a point citizens have nicknamed the country’s President John Mahama “Mr Dumsor”, meaning “on” and “off”.

Funny enough, President Mahama has on several occasions acknowledged the nickname and laughed about it.