Hulhumalé hospital flooded after heavy rainfall
“The way the hospital is built there is an open area of about 30 feet. The roof spills water on to the area when it rains heavily. If the water cannot drain it seeps inside the hospital. The water had seeped in under the doors,” the hospital’s director Ahmed Shakir explained.
20 Aug 2015, 9:00 AM
The Hulhumalé hospital’s x-ray room, laboratory and reception area were flooded after a heavy downpour last night.
The hospital’s director, Ahmed Shakir, told The Maldives Independent that rain water seeped in through a gap in the hospital building.
“The way the hospital is built there is an open area of about 30 feet. The roof spills water on to the area when it rains heavily. If the water cannot drain it seeps inside the hospital. The water had seeped in under the doors,” Shakir said.
Shakir also denied some media reports that documents had been destroyed by flooding. Water had seeped into a storage facility and some of books at the bottom of boxes left on the ground were a little wet, he said, but the damage was minimal.
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