The boss of Airedale Hospital in Keighley says it experiences more than 200 leaks a year.
A health boss has said a West Yorkshire hospital is so run-down it experiences "more than 200 leaks a year".
Ms Ajayi said the hospital urgently needed confirmation it could start a rebuild as part of the Department of Health's New Hospital Programme.In 2020 the government announced thatMs Ajayi said: "We ask that we are admitted onto the New Hospital Programme and that we can start work as soon as possible.
The hospital boss said "daily fixes" were needed to keep the hospital - which also serves parts of North Yorkshire - operational, with structures put in "to keep the building up for now". Ms Ajayi said: "We experience over 200 different leaks a year across our building and many of our fixes will last less than 10 years - this is significant work that we do every day."called for the "crumbling" hospital to be urgently replaced due to "dangerous structural deficiencies."
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