For weeks now, worms have been falling from the ceiling of a medical department at the Émile Durkheim Hospital in Épinal. Management is trying to eradicate this phenomenon.
When the Émile Durkheim Hospital in Épinal (Vosges) turns into a Koh-Lanta ordeal for patients. For nearly two months, maggots and midges have invaded the “internal medicine A” department of the health establishment. Patients, doctors and families, the invasion spares no one.
Every day, white or grayish grubs pass through the joints of the false ceiling tiles to fall on the floor, on the bedside tables or even on the beds of the patients who are on the third top floor of the Hospital Center. The service which includes 25 rooms is also invaded by midges, small black insects barely 1 cm. They are the mark that this sad spectacle has been going on for quite some time since midges are the evolved stage of fly larvae (maggots).
Blame it on the pigeons?
Very unpleasant appearances which are especially visible in the morning before the housework is done and before the visits. However, this did not prevent the families of the sick from being sickened by the situation in view of the numerous testimonies.
As an explanation, we learn in Vosges morning that the presence of these insects could be due to the dozens of pigeons which until recently stayed between the false ceiling and the roof of the building. The birds passed through a small opening – now screened – and nested there. The daily even describes a hardly believable scene where “pigeons would have found themselves stuck in the ventilation corridors after having tried, in vain, to join their locked eggs”.
Ongoing measures
Technicians have already intervened to unlock birds in a patient’s room. The origin of the problem could therefore come from the presence of an enormous layer of droppings under the roofs, accumulated by the long presence of the birds.
For his part, Mathieu Rocher, administrator of the Epinal hospital, ensures that measures are in progress. The operational hygiene team has thus programmed a series of chemical treatments but that can only be done by completely closing the rooms and other areas concerned … And faced with exasperated patients, it would do well to go fast . “This is all sickening. Something must be done for the safety of the sick, ”concludes a witness questioned by our colleagues.
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