DISGUSTED Andrew Cowper refused to have knee surgery after docs said there could be a dead RAT in the operating theatre.
Andrew, 19, walked out after a consultant apologised for the stench of rotting rodent and assured him staff were trying to find the corpse.
Disgrace ... hospital
The teenager, who had waited 11 months for the knee op, said: “He said the smell didn’t represent a health risk but I was appalled.
“I asked him, ‘If you were me would you have the operation?’
“He looked at me and said ‘no’, so I decided there and then I wasn’t going to go ahead.
“If there was one dead rat there could have been others rotting nearby.”
The dead rat was found later in the roof of another part of the hospital, away from the operating theatres.
Andrew, of Welwyn Garden City, Herts, had damaged a cruciate knee ligament playing footie.
He turned up for surgery at the town’s Queen Elizabeth II hospital on Monday and waited several hours before he was told about the rodent.
A spokesman said the hospital would re-schedule Andrew’s surgery.
This is Government supplied medical care.
He had to wait 11 months for a knee surgery.
There was a dead rat in the hospital.
It had been dead a while because they could smell it rotting.
They would have gone through with the surgery even though the room was not clean.
Nobody thought to look for the dead animal?
He waited several hours which means they probably did other surgeries in that same unclean room.
And you want the US Government to do the same here?
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