I’ve worked in dozens of operating rooms across the country.
Flies get in somehow. There are many levels of protection from double doors with powerful fans to bug zappers but they get in.
When one is sighted every person becomes a swat team member.
This is probably an overblown finding by the media.
I know of a man who died from the hospital environment itself. He was exposed to some bacteria and he was dead within days.
I suspect you're right. I've had good service from the V.A.
From the article:
We’ve obtained emails and memos showing the infestation goes back as far as November of 2016. This one titled “Phorid flies in the operating rooms.” It says that when spot treatments became ineffective, the ORs closed for terminal extermination and cleaning. We’ve learned the operating rooms at the veterans West Los Angeles Medical Center were closed a total of 22 days from November of 2016 through February of this year because of fly infestations that could jeopardize surgeries.
This is not what I would characterize as "overblown", but a real problem. BTW, I used to work in this hospital, on staff. It's not a place that I would want my care.
Exactly.
I’m an engineer and a hospital facility manager. The bugs get in despite every best effort of deterence.
Gasket the doors. Install bug barriers. Keep enough air changes. Use good infection control practices. Don’t allow cardboard or wood inside.
The hospital I work for had a cockroach crawl up the floor drain in the OR suite the other day. The same drain scalding hot water from the sterilizer discharges into.