Taiwan’s Health Minister suffers minor injury after damage inflicted on Ministry of Health by magnitude 6.1 earthquake
Taiwan News
Date: 2019/04/18
By: Keoni Everington, Taiwan News, Staff Writer
Chen Shih-chung. (MOHW photo)
TAIPEI (Taiwan News) — After a magnitude 6.1 earthquake struck eastern Taiwan’s Hualien County at 1:01 p.m. today, Taiwan’s Health Minister Chen Shih-chung (陳時中) suffered a minor injury when damaged was inflicted on the Ministry of Health and Welfare (MOHW) offices by the quake, while one other person in the ministry also suffered a mild injury.
The MOHW today announced that the temblor caused ceiling tiles, air vents, and chunks of steel framing to fall on a few of the floors of the ministry’s headquarters in Taipei’s Nangang District. As the quake delivered intensity level 4 shock waves to Taipei, Chen braced a steel doorway, and his hand was “pinched” when the steel frame of a doorway came loose.
However, the injury was reportedly minor, according to Up Media. Another employee suffered a minor injury as well, reported ETtoday.
After the quake ended, Chen then quickly rushed to the 8th floor, where much of the ceiling tiles and steel framing had collapsed from the ceiling. Public Relations Director (王哲超) Wang Che-chao told Up Media that the most extensive damage occurred on the 12th floor, the building’s top floor. [FULL STORY]
