A reside snake was just lately found within the ceiling tiles of the Guam Memorial Hospital, GMH administrator Lilian Perez-Posadas confirmed.
“That was a first-time and one-time discovery of a snake in the building,” Perez-Posadas stated, when requested whether or not there have been any indicators of snakes nesting within the building.
Steps are frequently taken to root out pests within the hospital, she added.
Images and video of what look like GMH employees hoisting a snake up on a brush had been being circulated on-line Thursday, on the identical time that hospital management was known as all the way down to the Legislature to debate attainable options to GMH’s ailing funds and bodily infrastructure.
The snake was discovered on the fourth ground of the hospital, “not in or near any patient delivery rooms,” the GMH administrator stated.
She clarified upon questioning that the snake was neither within the surgical ward nor the pediatrics unit—each of that are positioned on the fourth ground, based on a GMH web site map. The fourth ground can also be home to social companies, a classroom, the schooling division, visitor relations, and an infection management, based on the map.
Isabel Flores, a nurse working within the intensive care unit at GMH, instructed lawmakers throughout an oversight listening to late final month {that a} snake was discovered within the ceiling of the an infection management workplace. “Snakes do not belong in hospitals, that is just unacceptable,” she stated on the time.
“Our (facilities and maintenance) team has been and continues to routinely assess/check the compartments/pocket areas above the ceiling tiles, especially when they replace the water-soaked ceiling tiles,” Perez-Posadas instructed the Pacific Daily News Thursday.
“They also routinely assess/check the ground perimeter of (the) hospital for any unusual animals such as snakes. We have regular exterminator treatments throughout the facility,” she stated.
GMH has been making quite a few repairs to its roof to maintain water out, with extra on the way in which following an infusion of federal money from the Office of the Governor, Perez-Posadas instructed the PDN earlier this week. The hospital is awaiting certification from the Centers of Medicare & Medicaid Services, following a recent inspection.
