Ratlam : One person was killed and over dozen others injured when the roof of a ward in district hospital here collapsed in early hours of Sunday, an official said. The victims were sleeping in a veranda outside the maternity ward of the hospital when a part of its roof collapsed after midnight and they got trapped under the debris, district collector B Chandrashekhar said.
Narendra Lashkari (25), a local resident whose wife gave birth to a child two days back, died in the mishap and 11 others were injured, including four of them seriously, he said. The victims were relatives of patients admitted in the maternity ward, he further said. All those trapped under the debris were later pulled out and the injured were admitted at the district hospital itself. The veranda of the ward in the district hospital was old and the roof had weakened due to rainfall. A three-member committee of government engineers has been formed to probe into the causes which led to the roof collapse, the collector said. The family members of the deceased will be given Rs 4 lakh financial help, he said, adding that the four seriously injured persons will be provided a succour of Rs 50,000 each. The others injured will get a help of Rs 25,000 each.