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Hospitals plagued by rats
Daily Express
|February 05, 2024
NHS hospitals are spending tens of thousands of pounds trying to eradicate rats and mice, it has emerged.
 
 The average number of call-outs to pest control services by trusts in England have soared by an average of 50% since 2018.
The figures were revealed by a Freedom of Information request, months after a man filmed a rat near his 79-year-old mother's hospital ward and posted the footage online.
This story is from the February 05, 2024 edition of Daily Express.
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