Human excrement present in lockers and ceiling at kids’s hospital

Children’s Hospital employees have been left horrified after ‘human excrement’ has been discovered ‘smeared’ throughout male employees bogs and altering rooms, ‘hidden in employees lockers’ and even ‘hidden within the ceilings’, sources declare.

‘Human faeces’ have been repeatedly discovered strewn throughout and hidden across the male employees altering rooms and bogs for the hospital’s working theatre division, in accordance with a number of inside incident stories filed by employees. 

The Manchester Evening News (M.E.N) has seen a number of inside incident stories lodged on separate events over the past 12 months, starting from February 2023 to as current as the start of this month on the Royal Manchester Children’s Hospital.

One incident report claimed: ‘I got here into work this morning and went to get modified within the male altering room. 

‘I seen a horrible poo scent coming from the locker subsequent to mine, I appeared and located a recent poo within the prime locker beneath a scrub prime. I went and obtained some gloves and eliminated the filth and cleaned the locker.’

Royal Manchester Children’s Hospital have been left horrified

Another alleged: ‘Two lockers within the male altering room had outdated and recent excrement on them.’ 

A 3rd report learn: ‘Past 12 months somebody has been leaving faecal matter in towels in lockers within the male altering rooms. Incidents have been logged 12 occasions.’

Greater Manchester Police (GMP) has additionally confirmed that it has obtained stories about these incidents. Excrement has been left ‘smeared all down the bathroom’, one other inside incident report claimed, saying: ‘It appeared prefer it had been intentionally carried out by hand.’

One distressing report, seen by the M.E.N., defined employees fury in regards to the repeated fouling of the employees altering rooms and bogs within the kids’s working theatre division. 

It mentioned: ‘Once once more that is one more report (x5 at the very least) of the state of the boys’s bogs.

‘Someone has left a horrible mess within the third bathroom and it has been there since TUESDAY!!!!!! [sic] and it’s now Thursday that I’m penning this report. 

‘Myself and my fellow colleague have carried out greater than our justifiable share of cleansing mess like this up over the previous few weeks/months not, plus checking lockers for mess, so it proves that if both of us do not take it upon ourselves to wash this mess up it’s going to simply be left prefer it has been on this case.’

One supply informed the M.E.N. how they feared the excrement was ‘being introduced into the altering rooms in pattern pots and jars’, saying: ‘It’s been put within the towels within the males’s altering rooms within the kids’s theatre division.

‘Our surgeons and anaesthetists need to take showers earlier than they go into theatre, and somebody discovered that excrement had been put within the towels.’

‘The faeces had been put within the ceiling and it fell on the matron,’ claimed a supply.

‘It’s been happening for some time now and nobody appears to be doing something about it. Staff have been informed to not go to the police by administration.

‘It’s disgusting. We’re working with somebody who’s doing this and has entry to kids, treatment, and sterile areas.

‘The males’s bogs have been locked now, however there’s 101 employees within the division, so roughly half of these now solely have two bogs to make use of. 

‘The altering rooms and bogs are in the identical house, but it surely’s solely the bogs which were locked.

‘The lockers and showers are nonetheless open, that does not make sense to us.’

GMP has confirmed it has obtained stories relating to those incidents, saying that there was an ‘preliminary investigation over Christmas’ which was then closed ‘pending any additional data coming to mild’.

The M.E.N. put these claims, and the allegations made within the inside incident stories and to Greater Manchester Police, to the belief which operates the hospital. 

The Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust constructing at Trafford General Hospital in Manchester

A spokesperson for the belief, Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust, mentioned: ‘The belief doesn’t present touch upon safety points.’

But sources say not sufficient is being carried out by administration to crack down on the perpetrator.

Responses inside the numerous stories declare that the male altering rooms have been ‘monitored’ and that ‘all applicable motion had been taken’ within the wake of the horrifying findings, with one report from the tip of 2023 mentioning that work was being carried out to repair the ‘digital badge swipe card and digicam’ on the hall going through the male altering room ‘for monitoring function’.

Other responses inside the stories, seen by the M.E.N., say that incidents have been ‘investigated additional’ by theatre administration and ‘escalated to larger administration’.

‘They simply have to do one thing about it. Instead of fixing the issue, they’re making an attempt to cover the issue,’ added a pissed off supply.