AN INTENSIVE care ward ceiling collapsed on to a affected person on life assist.
Medics needed to evacuate the ten-bed unit on Thursday.
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Bosses declared a serious incident on the Princess Alexandra Hospital in Harlow, Essex, as engineers carried out pressing security checks.
The next day, a surgeon was in a carry on the Royal London Hospital in Whitechapel, East London, because it plummeted down 4 flooring earlier than the emergency brakes had been activated.
His leg was damaged.
Critics say the incidents lay naked the woeful state of the NHS’s buildings.
Dame Meg Hillier, chair of the Commons Public Accounts Committee, informed The Sunday Instances: “It’s an indication of the crumbling infrastructure not simply of our hospitals however of the entire nation. These are usually not circumstances sufferers or hospital employees ought to should work in.”
She warned that the “chickens are coming residence to roost” after years of under-investment in NHS amenities.
Final evening, the Princess Alexandra Hospital mentioned the affected person on whom the ceiling collapsed was unhurt.
However employees on the belief mentioned it was solely the most recent drawback with the Sixties constructing.
In November, a ward within the basement was minimize off when two lifts broke down.
Docs had been informed to name 999 if a affected person on the ward had a coronary heart assault, “as a result of there’d be no manner, with no carry, to maneuver the affected person to intensive care”.
