St Martha’s hospital portico collapse: Spinal cord injury cost Raichur worker his life

NT Correspondent

Bengaluru: A worker among the four injured during the portico collapse of St Martha’s hospital in Bengaluru, succumbed to injuries on late Tuesday.
The deceased was identified as Basavaraju, 23, a native of Manvi taluk of Raichur district. According to sources, he suffered a spinal cord fracture and died in the evening.

Chand Pasha, 35, Rafiq Ahmed, 30, and Moiduddin are all being treated at the same hospital. Police said that the workers stayed in a rented house in Madiwala.The portico was designed to provide shade between the parking lot and the casualty ward’s entrance.

“On Tuesday around 6 am, five workers began their work, and the incident occurred at 6:30 am. The hospital’s security guards alerted us about the incident,” police said.
It was revealed that Rafiq, one among the injured, a mason, was water-proofing the site when the rooftop collapsed.Four workers were rescued from the collapsed building, according to a fire department official. 

“They were trapped under a massive cement slab that collapsed on a pillar and we had to use earth-moving tools to clear the slab and retrieve them. Raghu, a third worker, made it to safety after jumping out of the building after hearing the bang,” the official said.
St. Martha’s Hospital in a statement said one of them had minor injuries, the other had fractured his leg and the third was critically injured but was revived and was undergoing treatment.