Red Cross: The elevator braked 20 cm before the impact – “I hit the back, I certainly have a fracture” says injured

The questions surrounding the hospital drop that occurred yesterday (09.01.2025), where 4 people were injured, remain unanswered. In shock remain the wounded since the fall elevator on the Red Cross. An elderly man who was being transported on a stretcher to get out of the hospital was in the elevator when he fell, resulting in another hospital. CORVERSE The injured man speaking exclusively to ANT1 said: “We heard boom boom boom boom, broke a thread and fell… I fell, hit my back because I fell to another level and there must normally be a fracture.” “We are in a state of alertness, we will not leave it until it closes,” Red Cross’s ANT1 doctors told their statements. “I’ve been in pain and since this happened I don’t feel my legs,” said the 24-year-old who was in the elevator. At the same time the 47-year-old paramedic who was together said: “Today I realized exactly what has happened, it’s a shock for all of us. It hurts, I get tired of talking, so I have an oxygen mask. I’m not well yet.” CORVERSE Nikos Kalogeris, curator of endocrinologist said features how “what we ask is security infrastructure this cannot be done with undersold services”. The prosecutor’s investigation is ongoing and will focus on the authenticity of the certificates that say that the elevator had been maintained last December. At the same time, it will be considered how the problem could not be seen a few days earlier, while questions exist about who and how he does the checks. Elias Ginosatis, attending surgeon stressed: “There had been a major upgrade of this particular elevator.” Police are now looking for the elevator’s maintenance officer at the Red Cross who remains missing. The elevator braked. As ANT1 revealed on Friday afternoon, the accident could have been an accident if an elevator system had not been operated, in which it was automatically activated, despite the failure and braked the elevator from falling heavily to the latter level. Specifically, the elevator stopped 20 cm before a strong impact on the floor, moving at a speed greater than that of the free fall. The response of the lift maintenance company In turn the maintenance company issued a notice on the event: “There is nothing more important for Otis than the safety of colleagues, customers and people based on our products and services daily” For a pervasive regime of public service elevator controls the competent federation with the president saying that “the Ministry of Development is deaf, the General Secretariat is deaf as well.”