It appears that an incident like this was waiting to happen, given the condition in which the Vitthal Sayana Civil Hospital is functioning. On Tuesday, when the Gynaecology ward had 19 patients along with their babies, a piece of plaster from the ceiling came crashing down.

Though no one was injured in the incident, a report prepared by Thane Municipal Corporation's disaster management department says that the remaining part of the ceiling was in a precarious condition. Hospital sources said that all the patients have been shifted to a different ward.