because of the monsoon fish swim in the corridors at the hospital

The monsoon in India, which has killed 545 people since May, caused a flood in a hospital in the state of Bihar where fish found themselves swimming in the corridors, AFP reported Monday to the authorities.

As dirty water ran down the Intensive Care Unit at Nalanda University Hospital in Patna, the patients deserved their name: they packed up as they could on their beds until the flow pbades. A patient's relative has even caught a fish. "A part of the ground floor was flooded yesterday (Sunday) after the clogging of a pipe because of heavy rains," told AFP the head of the hospital, Sitaram Prasad.

More than one million people affected by the rains

The misadventure illustrates the problems posed to the infrastructure of the country by the monsoon which sows every year death and destruction. From June to September, tens of thousands of buildings and homes are regularly flooded.

Since May, 545 people have died because of rains that have in one way or another affected more than one million people. In Uttar Pradesh State, just west of Bihar, house or wall collapse has killed nearly 80 people since Thursday, according to local emergency officer Sanjay Kumar.

Other states The surrounding area was also on the alert and the authorities evacuated 3,000 residents from areas near Yamuna, a tributary of the Ganges, which has exceeded its warning in New Delhi. In the state of Haryana, many rivers also reached their alert, according to the authorities. Gujarat (west) and Assam (north-east) were also affected. More than 200,000 people live in relief camps in Assam. Bombay, the capital of the state of Maharashtra (west), has suffered intense days of torrential rains that have impeded transportation and caused widespread flooding.

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