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National Filth Service: Report reveals wards overrun with rats

by LotusFlower | August 5, 2008 at 03:05 pm

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The UK's NHS (National Health Service) is still seen by many around the world (including film maker Michael Moore) as a model for social health care free at point of access to all citizens. In the UK itself the media are revealing it's underbelly - an underbelly due for a good scrub. Cases of hospital caught anti-biotic resistant infection are still extremely high and more and more calls are being made for the return of ward Matrons who traditionally made sure that wards were run as a tight ship and always spick and span. Now we get news of increasingly dirty dirty wards with some cases of rats and maggots actually in the wards. This has to be balanced against the excellent free health care that the majority of patients still get but worrying news if you are due to go into hospital.

Filthy NHS wards are being plagued by pests - with maggots found in slippers and rats in maternity units, it was revealed last night.

Hospitals are so dirty that pest controllers were called out to 20,000 infestations in the past two years.

Experts warned that the appalling levels of hygiene added to the danger to patients from the deadly superbugs MRSA and C.diff, which multiply in the same environments as pests.

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at 05:12 on August 6th, 2008

LotusFlower, I like this story. It's good stuff. As I entered a hall in central London at 4am I was greeted by hundreds of rats. Within a blink of an eyelid they vanished from sight. They live along side millions of London's residents who are largely unaware of their existence. The NHS and London are not alone in the infestation, they are everywhere.....NHS hospitals battling plague of vermin, Tories reveal