The Accident and Emergency ward at the Vecchio Pellegrini Hospital, in Naples Italy had to be closed after an infestation of cockroaches .....
.... maybe not a surprise to some.
However detectives were called in when it was found by an expert that the cockroaches were not local ones, but came from Central and South America. The suggestion is that some nurses had deliberately infected the ward in order to get transferred to easier duties on less demanding wards.
The nurses are believed to have brought the bugs into the hospital in a bag containing sawdust and a sheet after being bought on the pet trade where they are sold as live food for reptiles.
Hospital director Maria Corvino, told the press that it was "Extraordinarily grave. Nurses and trade unionists appear to have sabotaged the Pellegrini, in order to obtain a transfer elsewhere."
This type of industrial sabotage is not unknown in Italy. Last year, a patient at the San Giovanni Bosco Hospital was filmed covered in ants, and an investigation found open sachets of sugar scattered around staff lockers. A further infestation of ants was found in the resuscitation department of the same hospital last month.
Public sector jobs in the Southern European countries are often seen as nothing more than a sinecure.
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| Someone Smelt A Rat .... Or Rather A Cockroaches |
.... maybe not a surprise to some.
However detectives were called in when it was found by an expert that the cockroaches were not local ones, but came from Central and South America. The suggestion is that some nurses had deliberately infected the ward in order to get transferred to easier duties on less demanding wards.
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| The Cockroaches Were Filmed By Patients. |
The nurses are believed to have brought the bugs into the hospital in a bag containing sawdust and a sheet after being bought on the pet trade where they are sold as live food for reptiles.
Hospital director Maria Corvino, told the press that it was "Extraordinarily grave. Nurses and trade unionists appear to have sabotaged the Pellegrini, in order to obtain a transfer elsewhere."
This type of industrial sabotage is not unknown in Italy. Last year, a patient at the San Giovanni Bosco Hospital was filmed covered in ants, and an investigation found open sachets of sugar scattered around staff lockers. A further infestation of ants was found in the resuscitation department of the same hospital last month.
Public sector jobs in the Southern European countries are often seen as nothing more than a sinecure.
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