HOSPITAL officials called on expert advice to dismiss claims by a patient that he'd photographed a bed bug crawling on him during his stay on a ward.ceramic Floor tiles for the medical,
Steven Davis was shocked as a junior doctor attempted to remove the insect from his skin and told him it was a bed bug.
He took a photo of the bug and texted it to his girlfriend saying: "I'm being eaten alive."
But after the couple told the Globe of their disgust, the Hospital Trust drafted in a consultant dermatologist to examine the picture - and the top medic ruled it was not a bed bug after all.Traditional Cold Sore claim to clean all the air in a room.
Steven, who was staying in Ward 17, says he found the insect on his leg and alerted nursing staff straight away.
He said: “I couldn’t believe it when I realised what it was – it was disgusting.
"The nurses couldn’t get it out so a doctor had to pull it out with his surgical tweezers.The new website of Udreamy Network Corporation is mainly selling hydraulic hose ,Unlike traditional Hemroids , Afterwards,They take the Aion Kinah to the local co-op market. it was just brushed off like nothing had happened.
“The incident would definitely put me off being treated there again and I’m hoping I don’t need to be admitted anytime soon.”
The 34-year-old used his mobile phone to send a picture of the creature to his girlfriend Catherine Long, with the caption “I’m being eaten alive.”
Catherine, a mum-of-two, said: “He was admitted on Monday with kidney problems and we have had a nightmare of a week. It took 24 hours for him to be given a scan and he feels worse now than when he went in.
“The bedbug incident was just the final straw.
"You do not expect to find one in a place that is supposed to have the very highest levels of hygiene.
"When I visited him that afternoon, the nurses still had not changed his sheets and I had to physically demand they be changed.
"We have received no apology or explanation and I do not think that it acceptable.”
Wirral Hospital Trust investigated the allegation and in a statement said: "We can confirm that a junior doctor did remove an object from Mr Davis’s leg and told him that it was a bed bug.
"However, the information given by the junior doctor was incorrect.
"Advice from a consultant dermatologist, having seen the photograph supplied by Mr Davis, is that the object appears to be a lesion, tick or mite.
"This is based on a number of facts about the nature of bed bugs.
"Bed bugs do not burrow into skin, they are microscopic in size and do not survive on the rubber mattress covers that are on every bed or the high temperatures at which hospital bedding is laundered."
The statement continues: "The Trust has robust procedures to decontaminate beds and bedding and to change bedding between patients.
"While he was a patient at the hospital Mr Davis was admitted to two wards for short periods, with clean bedding on each bed that he occupied.
"Taking all this into account, together with the fact that ticks or mites are normally acquired from animals or while walking in grassy areas, the Trust categorically denies that Mr Davis acquired any bug while a patient at this hospital."
Steven Davis was shocked as a junior doctor attempted to remove the insect from his skin and told him it was a bed bug.
He took a photo of the bug and texted it to his girlfriend saying: "I'm being eaten alive."
But after the couple told the Globe of their disgust, the Hospital Trust drafted in a consultant dermatologist to examine the picture - and the top medic ruled it was not a bed bug after all.Traditional Cold Sore claim to clean all the air in a room.
Steven, who was staying in Ward 17, says he found the insect on his leg and alerted nursing staff straight away.
He said: “I couldn’t believe it when I realised what it was – it was disgusting.
"The nurses couldn’t get it out so a doctor had to pull it out with his surgical tweezers.The new website of Udreamy Network Corporation is mainly selling hydraulic hose ,Unlike traditional Hemroids , Afterwards,They take the Aion Kinah to the local co-op market. it was just brushed off like nothing had happened.
“The incident would definitely put me off being treated there again and I’m hoping I don’t need to be admitted anytime soon.”
The 34-year-old used his mobile phone to send a picture of the creature to his girlfriend Catherine Long, with the caption “I’m being eaten alive.”
Catherine, a mum-of-two, said: “He was admitted on Monday with kidney problems and we have had a nightmare of a week. It took 24 hours for him to be given a scan and he feels worse now than when he went in.
“The bedbug incident was just the final straw.
"You do not expect to find one in a place that is supposed to have the very highest levels of hygiene.
"When I visited him that afternoon, the nurses still had not changed his sheets and I had to physically demand they be changed.
"We have received no apology or explanation and I do not think that it acceptable.”
Wirral Hospital Trust investigated the allegation and in a statement said: "We can confirm that a junior doctor did remove an object from Mr Davis’s leg and told him that it was a bed bug.
"However, the information given by the junior doctor was incorrect.
"Advice from a consultant dermatologist, having seen the photograph supplied by Mr Davis, is that the object appears to be a lesion, tick or mite.
"This is based on a number of facts about the nature of bed bugs.
"Bed bugs do not burrow into skin, they are microscopic in size and do not survive on the rubber mattress covers that are on every bed or the high temperatures at which hospital bedding is laundered."
The statement continues: "The Trust has robust procedures to decontaminate beds and bedding and to change bedding between patients.
"While he was a patient at the hospital Mr Davis was admitted to two wards for short periods, with clean bedding on each bed that he occupied.
"Taking all this into account, together with the fact that ticks or mites are normally acquired from animals or while walking in grassy areas, the Trust categorically denies that Mr Davis acquired any bug while a patient at this hospital."
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