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Apologizes were received from the managers at the Royal Liverpool Hospital because of the state of the room which has been cleaned since the images were given and shown to the public. Grim pictures from inside a hospital ward have revealed the “disgusting” levels of dirt facing patients. Photos taken in an isolation room on a ward at the Royal Liverpool Hospital show cobwebs, windows caked in black grime, a filthy nurse call button, a smoke alarm covered by a plastic bag and out-of-date sandwiches left in a fridge.
It is said that patients on the ward are treated for conditions as serious as HIV, tuberculosis and tropical bacteria. Steve Blackall, from Speke, who snapped the photos while his wife Sarah was being treated for suspected meningitis, said: “It’s disgusting and it’s just not right. “A ward like that needs to be spick and span but it had clearly not been cleaned properly. There were sandwiches in the fridge with a use-by date of February 6, there were bags round the smoke alarms and there was a strong smell of blocked drains. It made me feel physically sick. People need to know about this. There was even black grime on the inside of the windows. My wife didn’t feel like eating because of the smell".
He added, “Apparently the room is meant to be fumigated every time a patient goes in there, but this obviously wasn’t done."
Lisa Grant, the Royal’s chief nurse, said: “This level of cleanliness is totally unacceptable. It is not what we expect for our patients and we have apologized to the patient and their family. We are already investigating this and will act to address the shortfalls relating to this incident. Bedrooms across our hospitals are regularly independently inspected and are generally found to be of a high standard of cleanliness. However, on this occasion, the standards in this room were well below the standard we expect.”
