Part of the roof of one of the laboratories of the Research Foundation of the Ramón y Cajal Hospital has detached this noon without causing injuries, as indicated from the hospital.
In turn, the hospital explains that this detachment has occurred when some plaster ceiling fixation points were released in the affected area, to emphasize that at that time the affected area was "unoccupied".
It also highlights that the center has reviewed the areas surrounding the area where the rubble has been removed "checking the correct condition of them" and now work to fix the incident, with the forecast to reopen this part of the laboratory on Thursday.
For their part, from CCOO they have demanded from the Management of Ramón y Cajal an "exhaustive" investigation and that responsibilities be cleared after the collapse occurred at 12:30 pm.
Faced with what the hospital says, the union maintains that at the time of the incident five people were working at the site "although there has been no need to regret personal injury." The fall of these elements has caused "serious material damage," the union organization added.
The collapse has occurred in a research laboratory of the Biochemistry Service, where both staff belonging to the hospital and the Biomedical Foundation of the hospital work. CCOO has stressed that three principal investigators, three laboratory technicians and two employees of research staff and a secretary usually work in that laboratory .
"This is a common area where many people pass through the day. In that laboratory is also located the ice machine used by all the research staff of the plant for the preservation of their samples or reagents," he said.
He also noted that minutes before the roof fell, the staff working in the laboratory "heard noises and left the room." Then, the ceiling of the entrance area to the laboratory and the central area collapsed when just one investigator "had just passed the exit door".
CCOO has assured that the workers questioned from the beginning the location of a PET-CT (device that measures the metabolic activity of the patient), acquired by the hospital at a price that the unions considered "well above their market value" .
The PET-TAC was installed, the union said, on top of the laboratories of the research institute and for a year that, an external company, "reinforced the roof and floor" that supports the electromedical device, "cracks of those who had been alerting researchers for some time, with no results. " ASK FOR MORE
In turn, from the Association for the Defense of Public Health they have stated that this incident "is not an isolated event but the evidence of the abandonment of the maintenance of health centers in Madrid's public health," which they believe are in " a state of great deterioration that can cause dangerous accidents for workers and users of the public health system. "
The origin of the problem for this group is "both in the insufficient financing of public health with budgets per capita that have long been below the average of autonomies, which for example in 2019 were below what was actually spent on 2018, and they are now extended. "
"We understand that it is urgent to change the health policy with a serious commitment to public health that must begin with the proper maintenance of public health centers, as well as the assumption of responsibilities by the Ministry of Health," ditch.
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