Much of the roof at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in King's Lynn is supported by props.
Patients have been asking to go to other hospitals rather than one where the ageing roof is being held up by more than 2,400 wooden and steel posts.
Alex Stewart, head of Healthwatch Norfolk, said some pregnant women have asked to go to other hospitals.The Queen Elizabeth Hospital opened in 1980, one of seven hospitals built using a material called reinforced autoclaved aerated concrete . "That said, we are aware of patients, for example, who are giving birth, who have asked to go to other hospitals because they're scared in case the roof might fall in on them.It would cost £554m over the next 10 years to make repairs to the existing hospital building, its chief executive said in April
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