So two people died because a lift broke down at a public hospital. Not "there were delays." A lift didn't work, and it cost two lives. On Monday the Chief Executive stood up and said there would be accountability. Good. Say more.

Here's the bit that gets me. "Accountability" is doing a lot of work in that sentence and nobody's told us what it means yet. Fire someone? Fine someone? Fix the lift? A hospital lift isn't a luxury item, it's how you move a patient who can't walk to the machine that keeps them alive. If the lift's down and nobody's got a backup plan, that's not bad luck, that's a maintenance schedule someone signed off on. The Hospital Authority runs dozens of these buildings. Somewhere there's a logbook that says when that lift was last serviced. That's the accountability. Not a press conference, a name in a maintenance record and whether anyone read it.