Pest controllers were rushed to Nottingham’s Kings Mill Hospital late on Monday night after a rat was found in one of the operating theatres.
Staff at the hospital feared that unless the rat was caught in time, it could come into contact with medical equipment used by doctors over the weekend and help spread the hospital’s norovirus to other unsuspecting rats in the Nottingham area.
The operating theatre was closed immediately and a number of operations cancelled while cleaners at the PFI funded hospital disinfected the wards just in case there were any other rats unaccounted for.
‘Although rats spend much of their time down sewers or scavenging in rubbish tips it doesn’t mean can be complacent about finding one in an NHS hospital’ warned a hospital orderly.
Karen Tomlinson, director of operations at the hospital said she was shocked to learn a rat had entered the building over the weekend saying it usually happened during the week when operations were actually taking place.
But suggestions that the rat had entered the hospital either in search of food or hoping to find warmth and shelter in hospital bedding were dismissed as ‘idiotic’ by Tomlinson,
‘To suggest the rat entered the hospital in search of food and warmth is simply ridiculous in the extreme’ fumed Tomlinson ‘and I’ve got 230 patients who have spent the weekend here at King’s Mill that will back me all the way on that. Anybody who thinks like that clearly doesn’t know a thing about the standards we set here at Kings Mill.
Greg Rawlings, senior pest controllers at the NCC reassured the public, saying early indications suggest the rat will be fine ‘obviously we’ll be keeping him down a sewer pipe overnight for observation’ added Greg ‘he had a lucky escape down in that operating theatre but we think he will pull through.
Which is more than can be said for those poor bastards still waiting on their NHS operation.
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Rat found in NHS operating theatre 'as well as can be expected' say pest control
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offlineMemberPosted 6 months ago # -
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offlineMemberi know its a small pedantic point, but kings mill hospital is in sutton in ashfield, just outside mansfield, which is in nottinghamshire, not actually in nottingham.
sorry, but those "big city" bastards claim everything else, they're not having our hospital as well!
apart from that, VERY accurate. have some starsPosted 6 months ago #
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