Nagpur: The newly constructed administrative block of Indira Gandhi Government Medical College and Hospital (IGGMCH), also known as Mayo Hospital, experienced waterlogging on the ground floor due to a leaking roof after the rains on Tuesday. The rainwater spilled into the corridor, making walking difficult during official hours. The administration deployed housekeeping staff to continuously wipe the floor to prevent visitors, staff, and students from skidding. At the start of the season, rainwater entered wards and the OT in the surgical ward, where additional floors are also being constructed. The modern complex, originally planned as a six-storey building at a cost of ₹50 crore, was declared ready for use earlier this year. However, just as it was to be occupied, the authorities decided to add another floor to accommodate a future rise in student intake. The additional seventh floor, sanctioned at ₹11 crore by the public works department (PWD), has extended construction by nearly a year.IGGMCH dean Dr Ravi Chouhan did not answer TOI's calls. Officials said that the waterlogging was not due to leakage but a result of ongoing work. "Pipes have been attached up to the sixth floor. The slab water from the seventh floor is falling directly because the pipe for that floor is yet to be connected," they said.As the city has been receiving continuous rains, water is getting contaminated in the building portion and surrounding premises too. Currently, many civil construction works are ongoing in the medical college. Stagnant water around a hospital during the monsoon -- a season notorious for water-borne diseases -- has drawn criticism from healthcare staff and citizens alike. They said that preventive measures are in place, with the Nagpur Municipal Corporation (NMC) and community medicine department engaged in sanitation drives.The delay in making the building functional has already cost students and doctors, who continue to work in Mayo's crumbling structure. The new complex is expected to house the dean's office, library, para-clinical departments such as pathology, microbiology, and forensic medicine, along with 10 clinical departments including surgery, paediatrics, psychiatry, orthopaedics, ophthalmology, and gynaecology. But with construction ongoing, entry remains barricaded.According to PWD officials, the seventh-floor work will take eight to nine months. Meanwhile, the sight of water pooling in a partially ready hospital building has sparked questions about construction planning and quality control in one of Nagpur's oldest and most important medical colleges.