Banha’s Prosecution Office ordered the supervisor of elevators at Banha University Hospital to be detained for four days on Monday, pending an investigation into the collapsed elevator at the at the hospital. Seven people were killed on January 31 after an elevator collapsed at Banha University Hospital, in Egypt’s Qalyubiya governorate. The undersecretary of the Faculty of Medicine, Dr. Ibrahim Rajeh, who is in charge of the university hospital, submitted his resignation from all his positions at the university, namely the Undersecretary of the Faculty of Medicine, and Director of the University Hospital, as he was unable to continue in the bad conditions surrounding the hospital. On Sunday evening, a fact-finding committee of the Engineers Syndicate held a press conference to announce its report on the incident. Mohamed al-Nimr, who is the head of the fact-finding committee, said that the elevator had been subject to a lack of maintenance since 2009.

Source: Egypt Independent February 06, 2018 11:23 UTC