MTH announces compensation to victims (news update)

"Manipal Teaching Hospital (MTH) has announced to provide Rs 200 thousand compensation and provide employment to a member of each family in the hospital based on their educational qualification to the families of ten people, who were killed when the roof of the hospital collapsed Thursday.



Security personnel and general people involved in rescue operation at Manipal Teaching Hospital premises in Pokhara Thursday.
(Photo source: www.thehimalayantimes.com)
Similarly, the hospital announced Rs 50,000 compensation and free treatment to each of the injured persons.

According to a hospital source, those who died in the accident included patients who were taking rest in the waiting room and two staffers of the hospital. Hari Maya Acharya of Kahun, Kaski, and Sarswoti Gautam of Baglung?s Mulpani were the hospital staffers killed in the incident.

Others who lost their lives in the incident are Jagadish Gautam of Baglung?s Mulpani; Singh Bahadur Gurung, Dil Kumari Gurung and Chandra Kumari Gurung of Kaski?s Ghandruk; Khil Maya Thapa, Dhanmaya Khada, Durga Malla, Kalimaya Thapa of Tanahun?s Baidi.

Among the seven injured people, four are said to be in critical condition and are undergoing treatment at the hospital.

The Royal Nepalese Army, the Nepal Police, the Armed Police Force and hospital employees engaged in the rescue operation for over two hours, reports said.

A Mumbai-based construction company, Space Tech Engineering, which constructed the waiting room at a cost of around Rs 3 million in 2000 had guaranteed that it would last for 50 years, reports quoted Sanjay Kumar Gupta, engineer of the hospital as saying.

He also quoted the company as saying that the waiting room would resist earthquake up to a magnitude of 7 in the Richter scale.

MTH is the first private sector medical college in the country run by the Manipal Group of India, which started its operation five years ago. The 700-bed hospital employs 150 persons. The Manipal Education and Medical Group of India owns and runs the college in Pokhara.

Commenting on the incident, Gandaki zonal administrator Kumar Bahadur Karki said investigation into the incident would be carried out and the facts would be made public soon. "

Source: nepalnews.com

The question is: Is this freaking construciton company will be prosecuted? Its freaking way over the hills these foreigners messing the Nepali projects.