Tag: control

Almost £350,000 of public money has had to be spent on pest controllers at Fife health care sites over the past decade, it has emerged. Cockroaches, rats, mice, ants, wasps, spiders and flies are among the reasons specialists have been drafted in an average of once a day since the summer of 2010. The ageing Stratheden Hospital near Cupar, which began life as an asylum back in 1866, was home to most call-outs, with contractors Premier Services attending 784 incidents to deal with rodents, wasp nests, insects, rabbits and even voles. Kirkcaldy’s Victoria Hospital recorded 742 reports, including one incident in September 2017 when a kestrel was being attacked by gulls causing feathers to blow into some of the rooms. More than 500 incidents stemmed from pest sightings at Cameron Hospital in Wi...