At the La Timone hospital, in Marseille.

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CHRISTOPHE SIMON / AFP

The impressive video is making the rounds on social networks.

On the images, downpours fall from the roof, and the corridors of the Timone hospital in Marseille are totally flooded, at the height of the activity of the Assistance Publique des Hôpitaux de Marseille (AP-HM) linked to the coronavirus epidemic.

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Contacted, the AP-HM confirms to have faced this Tuesday with "an overflow of the rainwater collectors of the evacuation network".

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The water creating a load that is too great in relation to the diameter of the collectors has then flowed through the joints," adds the AP-HM.

It spread on the floor of two rooms located in the service of Prof. Tsimaratos on the 16th floor of the hospital of Timone - Children.

These two rooms do not accommodate a patient, but are intended for a tertiary activity, they are indeed two medical offices.

Full of water, three slabs of the false ceiling fell and the water rose up to 40 cm in these rooms.

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According to the AP-HM, “no injuries were to be deplored” and “no patient rooms in the hospital ward or other rooms upstairs were damaged”.

And to affirm: “The replacement of the false ceilings following this damage will be operated from tomorrow in the medical offices, but also on the 15th floor (endoscopy room located just below) where infiltrations were also observed.

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The AP-HM is regularly struck by controversies over the dilapidated state of these premises, which has resulted in the recent implementation of a modernization plan.

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