Naples police told CNN that the ‘magistrate has appointed a technical expert to determine the causes of the collapse, which could be the result of water infiltration, given the heavy rains of the past two weeks.’
“The hypothesis early in the morning that it was an explosion was rejected. No injuries or casualties,” police added.
The fire department used dog units to check that no one was trapped on the site.
As a result of the incident, the hospital evacuated six patients from an asymptomatic Covid ward.
There was also a water outage across the hospital, the press office said. Generators now supply it with electricity.
In the Ospedale del Mare, the meticulous Napoli 1 Covid center was built with containers in a parking lot during the first wave of the coronavirus pandemic, which overwhelmed the Italian healthcare system.