2024-05-01 16:58:40
The Canadian Vancouver Island Health Authority has played down what employees described as a cockroach infestation in medical units at the Saanich Peninsula hospital, calling on medical staff and nurses to remain calm, because these creatures “do not bite or transmit disease.”
Hospital sources told CTV News that “several patient rooms, the nursing station and the medication processing center were previously infested with cockroaches, with cockroaches crawling on the walls and hiding in the washed sheets.” , and the hospital administration asked staff to collect them.
The workers said they were “emotionally stunned” after finding the insects on patients’ bodies, noting that officials downplayed the matter and at least one official denied their presence even though he had seen dozens of cockroaches at the hospital.
Later, a spokesperson for the region’s health authorities tried to downplay the importance of the case, pointing out that “these cockroaches are known as German cockroaches” and that they belong to a category of ” insects that do not bite and do not transmit diseases. »
He added that a pest control contractor was immediately contacted and he visits the site twice a week to monitor the traps and provide advice.
The health authority later confirmed that no cockroaches had been detected in the hospital since April 22, but that pest control measures were continuing.
For her part, the president of the Federation of British Columbia Nurses, Adrienne Geyer, declared: “What I heard was that cockroaches were climbing on the bed and the curtains of the patients’ rooms and were very visible, which is annoying. » She urged health authorities to take the situation seriously and try to determine the number of insects that managed to invade this area of the hospital.
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