LAMKA, June 21: A portion of a room collapsed yesterday at the Children’s OPD of the Churachandpur District Hospital, while three Doctors were attending to approximately 80 to 100 children.
A part of a beam in one of the rooms meant for children’s room collapsed.
Staffs of the hospital on conditions of anonymity said that this is the second time that a part of the beam has collapsed in Room No 19 in as many months.
The adjacent room nos 14, 15 and 16 of the Medicine, Surgical and Mini OT`S OPDs are also developing cracks which can give way any day, they complained.
Doctors who were on duty when the incident happened said the collapse was due to use of sub-standard material in the construction of the building.
The doctors continued that one of the doctors attending to a child patient inside the room had a narrow escape with the collapsing part missed him by a whisker.
People who were outside the room said there was a loud noise as if the whole building had collapsed.
It was pure luck that no one was injured during the incident, they said.
This kind of collapse is not new to the hospital which is ironically an ISO certified hospital with its foundation stone had been laid by the then Minister Chaltonlien Amo on May 31, 1997.
Recently, the ceiling of the OT had been in the news for falling flat down and the situation is no better now with the ceiling of the major part of OPD already about to fall and starting to curve.
After the incident, the doctors continued with checking their patients at the ground floor while attendants and workers tried to clean up the debris left by the fall.