Green Campania regional councillor
Francesco Borrelli told ANSA Monday he had found cockroaches
next to medicine in the ER department of Naples' San Giovanni
Bosco Hospital overnight.
"There were cockroaches on a shelf next to medicines in the
ER," he said.
Borrelli, who said he was set to see the hospital's health
director, Luigi De Paola, said "the problem is that in most
cases cleaning contractors don't do their job properly".
It is the second such case in less than a week in Italian
hospitals.
Last Wednesday cockroach nests were found in the kitchens of
Turin's Molinette Hospital.
Patients and their relatives were shocked.
"We're already worried about our relatives and now e have to
be careful about everything," said Antonio, voicing the hope his
mother would soon be discharged from the general surgery ward.
Assunta, tending to her mother, said "it's a disgrace that a
hospital should be reduced to such a state.
"Hygiene is lacking in here, whole it's supposed to be a
place that's clan in every slightest detail".
Salvatore asked "but is it really true there are cockroaches
as well as mosquitoes?
"How disgusting!"
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