Cancer treatment is carried out in a building that opened in 1839 in the Royal Berkshire Hospital - with waiting patients having to be evacuated after rain flooded through the ceiling.
Graham Hart has stage four cancer. It's in his liver and his colon.
The 60-year-old self-employed businessman noticed some bleeding after going to the toilet and made an appointment to see his GP.Mr Hart says the news was devastating but now treatment is under way he is more hopeful."I've seen the news and you do have anxiety about these things but once you're up and running… it's OK."
Mr Hart is receiving the most modern medical care but his treatment is carried out in a building that opened in 1839.The rain flooded through the ceiling of the waiting room yesterday forcing the evacuation of waiting patients to a drier part of the building.Advertisement Next door on the cancer ward the electrics can't be upgraded or the listed building's structure changed in any way.Walking through the empty room, Mark Foulkes, the president of the UK Oncology Nursing Society, points to the hole in the ceiling and says:"The fact is that some of these buildings are just not fit for purpose, as we can see here - it rained last night as you remember, and it also unfortunately rained in here.
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